Lifetime investigation of high power IGBT modules

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Due, Jens ^a   Munk Nielsen, Stig ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3D CT scan; Coffin manson; IGBT lifetime; IGBT power cycling; VCE measurement

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COFFIN-MANSON; CT SCAN; FAILURE MECHANISM; HIGH-POWER; MEASURING SYSTEMS; POWER MODULE; TEST BENCHES; VOLTAGE DROP; WORKING POINT;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; POWER ELECTRONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053519992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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