High voltage IGBTs and medium frequency transformer in DC-DC converters for railway applications

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 744-749

  Hoffmann, Holger ^a   Piepenbreier, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

High voltage power converters; IGBT; Medium frequency transformer; Multilevel converter; Rail vehicle; Resonant converter

Indexed keywords

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CONVERTERS; IGBT; MEDIUM FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; RAIL VEHICLE; RESONANT CONVERTERS;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER ELECTRONICS; RAIL MOTOR CARS; RESONANCE;

DC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 77956606131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM.2010.5542109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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