SiC versus Si - Evaluation of potentials for performance improvement of inverter and DCDC converter systems by SiC power semiconductors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2872-2882

  Biela, Juergen ^a   Schweizer, Mario ^a   Waffler, Stefan ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ACDC power converters; DCDC power converters; SiC powersemiconductor switches

Indexed keywords

AC-DC POWER CONVERTERS; CONVERTER SYSTEM; DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; NORMALLY OFF; NORMALLY ON; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POWER DENSITIES; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SI DEVICES; SIC DEVICES; SIC DIODES; SIC POWERSEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SPECIFIC-ON RESISTANCE; SWITCHING DEVICES; SYSTEM-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; WIDE BAND-GAP MATERIAL;

POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79959286484     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2072896     Document Type: Article

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