Closed-Loop Gate Drive for High Power IGBTs

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1331-1337

  Chen, Lihua ^a   Peng, Fang Z ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CURRENT OVERSHOOT; DUTY CYCLES; ENERGY LOSS; GATE CONTROL; GATE DRIVES; GATE-DRIVE SIGNAL; HIGH-POWER; NOVEL METHODS; PARASITIC INDUCTANCES; POWER DEVICES; SWITCHING SPEED; VOLTAGE OVERSHOOT;

ACTIVE FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 65949090936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2009.4802837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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