High density 50 kW SiC inverter systems using a JFET based six-pack power module

8th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia: "Green World with Power Electronics", ICPE 2011-ECCE Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 764-769

  Han, Timothy Junghee ^a   Nagashima, Jim ^a   Kim, Sung Joon ^a   Kulkarni, Srikanth ^b   Barlow, Fred ^b  

^a Global Power Electronics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

High Power Inverter; High Temperature; Power Module; SiC JFET

Indexed keywords

FULLY INTEGRATED; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH RELIABLE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-POWER INVERTERS; INVERTER RATING; INVERTER SYSTEM; INVERTER-BASED; JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; LOAD LEVELS; PEAK POWER; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER DEVICES; POWER MODULE; PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT; RECENT PROGRESS; SIC JFET; SWITCHING LOSS; THREE-PHASE INVERTER;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 80052094776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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