Applications of silicon carbide JFETs in power converters

AUPEC 2010 - 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference: "Power Quality for the 21st Century"

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shillington, Rory ^a   Gaynor, Paul ^a   Harrison, Michael ^b   Heffernan, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Eaton Power Quality Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ac AC power conversion; AC DC power conversion; Efficiency; JFET; Power factor correction; Silicon carbide

Indexed keywords

AC-AC POWER CONVERSION; AC-DC POWER CONVERSION; CYCLOCONVERTERS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH VOLTAGE; JFET; MOSFETS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER SUPPLY; POWER SUPPLY PRODUCTS; REDUCED SWITCHING; SINGLE-PHASE POWER; SLEW RATE; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFICATION;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOSFET DEVICES; SILICON CARBIDE; TOPOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952326128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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