On dynamic effects influencing IGBT losses in soft-switching converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 260-271

  Ranstad, Per ^a   Nee, Hans Peter ^b  

^a ALSTOM   (France)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conductivity modulation; insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); resonant converters; soft switching; tail current

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; CHARGE EFFECT; CONDUCTION LOSS; CONDUCTIVITY MODULATION; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; FIXED AMPLITUDE; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; ON DYNAMICS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OSCILLATING CIRCUITS; RESONANT CONVERTERS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SINUSOIDAL CURRENTS; SOFTSWITCHING CONVERTERS; STRAY INDUCTANCES; SWITCHING DEVICES; TAIL CURRENTS; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; EXPERIMENTS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); MODULATION; SOFT SWITCHING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 78650984362     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2055581     Document Type: Article

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