Active snubber energy recovery circuit for series-connected IGBTs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1879-1889

  Lim, Tee C ^a   Williams, Barry W ^a   Finney, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active snubber circuit; energy recovery; insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); series connection

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SNUBBER; CONTROL CONCEPT; DC SUPPLIES; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE; ENERGY RECOVERY; ENERGY RECOVERY CIRCUITS; INSULATED GATE; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; P-SPICE SIMULATION; POWER LEVELS; SERIES CONNECTIONS;

ACTIVE FILTERS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; RECOVERY;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

EID: 80051681866     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2093539     Document Type: Article

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