Comparison of press-pack IGBT at hard switching and clamp operation for medium voltage converters

Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Alvarez, Rodrigo ^a   Filsecker, Felipe ^a   Bernet, Steffen ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Device application; Device characterization; IGBT; Industrial application; Packaging; Test bench

Indexed keywords

DEVICE APPLICATION; DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; HIGH-POWER; IGBT DEVICES; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; SAFE OPERATING AREA; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; SWITCHING LOSS; TEST BENCHES;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); PACKAGING; POWER ELECTRONICS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS);

SWITCHING;

EID: 80053478635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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