Performance evaluation of high voltage super junction MOSFETs for zero-voltage soft-switching inverter applications

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 387-391

  Park, Sung Yeul ^a   Sun, Pengwei ^b   Yu, Wensong ^b   Lai, Jih Sheng ^b  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY DIODE REVERSE RECOVERY; COMPARISON TEST; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH VOLTAGE; INVERTER APPLICATION; INVERTER EFFICIENCY; INVERTER TEST; MOS-FET; MOSFETS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REVERSE RECOVERY; SOFT-SWITCHING INVERTERS; SUPER JUNCTIONS; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE;

POWER ELECTRONICS; SOFT SWITCHING; SWITCHING;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 77952193049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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