Modularized design consideration of a general-purpose, high-speed phase-leg PEBB based on SiC MOSFETs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Zheng ^a   Danilovic, Milisav ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^a   Shen, Zhiyu ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Device application; High frequency power converter; MOSFET; Silicon Carbide (SiC)

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT LAYOUT DESIGN; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; DEVICE APPLICATION; GATE DRIVERS; HIGH FREQUENCY OPERATION; HIGH FREQUENCY POWER CONVERTER; HIGH-SPEED; MODULARIZED DESIGN; MODULE-BASED; MOS-FET; MOSFETS; POWER DENSITIES; POWER ELECTRONICS BUILDING BLOCKS; SIC MOSFET; SIC SCHOTTKY DIODE; SMART CONTROL; SWITCHING SPEED; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

DESIGN; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SILICON CARBIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 80053519969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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