A shoot-through protection scheme for converters built with SiC JFETs

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2301-2305

  Lai, Rixin ^a   Wang, Fred ^a   Burgos, Rolando ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC-AC CONVERTERS; BIDIRECTIONAL SWITCH; CIRCUIT DESIGNS; DC-LINK; MOS-FET; PROTECTION CIRCUITS; PROTECTION MECHANISMS; PROTECTION SCHEMES; SHOOT-THROUGH; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVE FILTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MACHINE DESIGN;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 72449139119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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