A 55-kW three-phase inverter with Si IGBTs and SiC Schottky diodes

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 278-285

  Ozpineci, Burak ^a   Chinthavali, Madhu Sudhan ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a,b   Kashyap, Avinash S ^c   Mantooth, H Alan ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

DC AC conversion; Hybrid electric vehicle; Insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs); Inverter; Schottky diode; Silicon carbide (SiC)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; SIMULATORS; TRANSISTORS; VEHICLES;

DC-AC CONVERSION; HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE; INSULATED-GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBTS); INVERTER; SCHOTTKY DIODE; SILICON CARBIDE (SIC);

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 59649122928     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.2009501     Document Type: Article

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