Commutation in a high power IGBT based current source inverter

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2209-2215

  Abu Khaizaran, Muhammad ^a   Palmer, Patrick ^b  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current commutation; Current source inverter; Series operation; Snubbers; Space vector modulation; Stability; Voltage sharing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SWITCHES; TRANSISTORS;

CURRENT COMMUTATION; CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER; DESIGN GUIDELINES; HIGH POWERS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; LOW OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS; OUTPUT CURRENTS; REVERSE RECOVERY; SERIES DIODES; SERIES OPERATION; SNUBBERS; SPACE VECTOR MODULATION; STABILITY; VOLTAGE SHARING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 48349108584     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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