SiC's potential impact on the design of wind generation system

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2231-2235

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a,b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Converter; Modeling; MOSFET; Silicon carbide (SiC); Wind generation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MOSFET DEVICES; SILICON CARBIDE; WIND POWER;

BI-DIRECTIONAL CONVERTERS; CONSERVE ENERGIES; CONVERTER; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; LOW LOSS; MODELING; MOSFET; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SI DEVICES; SIC DEVICES; SIC MOSFET; SYSTEM MODELING; SYSTEM SIZES; WIND GENERATION; WIND GENERATION SYSTEMS; WIND SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 63149167966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2008.4758303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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