A 120°C ambient temperature forced air-cooled normally-off SiC JFET automotive inverter system

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1282-1289

  Bortis, Dominik ^a   Wrzecionko, Benjamin ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CONTROL ELECTRONICS; CONVERTER DESIGN; COOLING CIRCUITS; COOLING FLUIDS; DISCRETE POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; HARDWARE PROTOTYPE; HOT SPOT; HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE; INVERTER SYSTEM; JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PELTIER COOLING; PELTIER ELEMENTS; PERIPHERAL COMPONENTS; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS; THERMAL REQUIREMENTS;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILES; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ELECTRONIC COOLING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SILICON CARBIDE;

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EID: 79955766666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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