Decentralized active gate control for current balancing of parallel connected IGBT modules

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lobsiger, Y ^a   Bortis, D ^a   Kolar, J W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CIGBT; Current sensor; Load sharing controls; Parallel operation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE GATE CONTROL; CIGBT; CURRENT BALANCING; CURRENT SENSOR; CURRENTS AND VOLTAGES; DELAY TIME; GATE DRIVES; GATE DRIVING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR MODULES; LOAD SHARING CONTROL; MODULAR CONCEPTS; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; PARALLEL-CONNECTED; PARAMETER VARIATION; POWER DEMANDS; UNBALANCED CURRENTS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION; VOLTAGE RATINGS;

DELAY CIRCUITS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER ELECTRONICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 80053490338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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