New power technologies for traction drives

SPEEDAM 2010 - International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 719-723

  Mermet Guyennet, Michel ^a  

^a ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

Power electronics; Silicon carbide; Traction drives; Transformer

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED; HIGH SPEED TRAINS; MARKET REQUIREMENTS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; POWER TECHNOLOGIES; TRACTION DRIVE; TRANSFORMER;

DRIVES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE;

TRACTION (FRICTION);

EID: 77956577399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM.2010.5542097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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