A literature review of IGBT fault diagnostic and protection methods for power inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1770-1777

  Lu, Bin ^a   Sharma, Santosh K ^a  

^a EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Gate misfiring fault; Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); Open circuit fault; Power inverter; Short circuit fault

Indexed keywords

FAULT DIAGNOSIS; GATE-MISFIRING FAULT; OPEN-CIRCUIT FAULT; POWER INVERTER; SHORT-CIRCUIT FAULT;

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

EID: 70349973673     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2027535     Document Type: Review

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