Short circuit III in high power IGBTs

2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lutz, Josef ^a   Döbler, Ralf ^a   Mari, Jorge ^b   Menzel, Matthias ^b  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free wheel diode (FWD); IGBT; Reverse recovery; Robustness; Traction application

Indexed keywords

FREE WHEEL DIODE (FWD); FREEWHEELING DIODES; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH-POWER; PEAK CURRENTS; RECOVERY VOLTAGE; REVERSE RECOVERY; ROBUSTNESS; SHORT CIRCUIT; TRACTION APPLICATIONS; VERY LOW VOLTAGE;

ACTIVE FILTERS; DC GENERATORS; DIODES; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER ELECTRONICS; TRACTION (FRICTION); WHEELS;

WELDS;

EID: 72949085778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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