Efficiency impact of silicon carbide power electronics for modern wind turbine full scale frequency converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-28

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^b,c  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Converter; metaloxidesemiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET); modeling; silicon carbide (SiC) wind generation

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FAST SWITCHING; FULL SCALE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW LOSS; MODELING; MOS-FET; POTENTIAL EFFICIENCY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER CONVERSION UNITS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION; SI DEVICES; SIC DEVICES; SYSTEM MODELING; VOLTAGE BLOCKING CAPABILITY; WIND GENERATION SYSTEM; WIND SPEED; WIND SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE; WIND POWER;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650190002     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2048292     Document Type: Article

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