Low reverse-recovery stress in high-power converters achieved by self-resetting saturable cores

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 232-238

  Gruening, Horst ^a   Koyanagi, Kimiyuki ^a   Mukunoki, Makoto ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

DESSIS; Diode model for circuit simulation; High power inverter; Mixed mode device simulation; Saturable core; Soft recovery

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; POWER CONVERTERS;

DESSIS; DIODE MODEL FOR CIRCUIT SIMULATION; HIGH-POWER INVERTER; MIXED-MODE DEVICE SIMULATION; SATURABLE CORE; SOFT RECOVERY;

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 59649121362     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.2009567     Document Type: Article

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