Investigating the effect of snubber capacitor on high power IGBT turn-off

2011 1st International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems, ICEES 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 50-55

  Naayagi, R T ^a   Shuttleworth, R ^b   Forsyth, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct mount snubber; Gate resitance; High power IGBT; Snubber capacitor; Turn off loss

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MOUNT SNUBBER; GATE RESITANCE; HIGH POWER IGBT; SNUBBER CAPACITOR; TURN-OFF LOSS;

CAPACITORS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); MOUNTINGS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79953124547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEES.2011.5725301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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