An analysis of high-power IGBT switching under cascade active voltage control

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 861-870

  Wang, Yalan ^a   Palmer, Patrick R ^a   Bryant, Angus T ^b   Finney, Stephen J ^c   Abu Khaizaran, Muhammad S ^d   Li, Gangru ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^e Littelfuse Ireland Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade active voltage control (Cascade AVC); Controlled switching; High power insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); Series connection; Stability

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CASCADE ACTIVE VOLTAGE CONTROL (CASCADE AVC); COLLECTOR VOLTAGES; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROLLED SWITCHING; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; GATE VOLTAGES; HIGH-POWER INSULATED-GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR (IGBT); INNER LOOPS; OPERATING POINTS; OUTER LOOPS; SERIES CONNECTION; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY ISSUES; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SWITCHING; SYSTEM STABILITY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

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EID: 64049112827     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2013595     Document Type: Article

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