PWM converter power density barriers

IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kolar, Johann W ^a   Drofenik, Uwe ^a   Biela, Juergen ^a   Heldwein, Marcelo ^a   Ertl, Hans ^b   Friedli, Thomas ^a   Round, Simon ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cooling system; Figures of merit; Passive components; Power density

Indexed keywords

DC LINK CAPACITOR; FIGURES OF MERITS; HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETICS; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; MULTI DOMAINS; PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; POWER DENSITIES; POWER DENSITY; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; PWM CONVERTER; PWM RECTIFIER; SPARSE MATRIX CONVERTERS; TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS; UNITY POWER FACTOR;

COMPUTER CRIME; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 70350110595     PISSN: 09136339     EISSN: 13488163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejias.128.468     Document Type: Article

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