Smart grid technologies

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 16-23

  Wang, Jun ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^b   Sung, Woongje ^a   Liu, Yu ^c   Baliga, B Jayant ^d  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT HANDLING; FREQUENCY CAPABILITY; HIGH-VOLTAGE; LARGE POWER; PHYSICAL LIMITS; POWER DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; POWER HANDLING; SILICON-BASED TECHNOLOGY; SMART GRID; VOLTAGE CAPABILITY;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY;

EID: 67650122813     PISSN: 19324529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIE.2009.932583     Document Type: Article

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