Problems associated with parallel performance of high current semiconductor switches and their remedy

SPEEDAM 2008 - International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1379-1383

  Abdi, B ^a   Ranjbar, A H ^b   Malekian, K ^b   Milimonfared, J ^b   Gharehpetian, G B ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Current balance; MOSFET; Paralleling

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

CURRENT BALANCE; CURRENT RATINGS; ELECTRICAL DRIVES; FACTS DEVICES; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH-POWER CONVERTERS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MOSFET; MOSFETS; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PARALLELING; POWER SEMI-CONDUCTOR;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 51849129145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDHAM.2008.4581135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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