Quantitative study on operation frequency limitation of multi-level high voltage power converter equipped with Si-IEGT and SiC-PiN diode

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2909-2913

  Kinjo, T ^a   Takao, K ^b   Tanaka, Y ^a   Sung, K ^c   Ohashi, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC GENERATORS; ESTIMATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE;

HARD DRIVES; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER; HIGH VOLTAGES; HIGH-FREQUENCY OPERATIONS; HIGH-SPEED SWITCHING CAPABILITY; LEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTI-LEVEL; OPERATION FREQUENCIES; P-I-N DIODES; POWER DEVICES; POWER LOSSES; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 52349119998     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4592391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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