Design and performance of a high frequency silicon carbide inverter

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition: Energy Conversion Innovation for a Clean Energy Future, ECCE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2044-2049

  Shen, Miaosen ^a   Krishnamurthy, Shashank ^a   Mudholkar, Mihir ^b  

^a UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

high frequency; silicon carbide; three phase inverter

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND TESTS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS; HIGH POWER DENSITY; THREE-PHASE INVERTER; WIDE BAND-GAP MATERIAL;

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY GAP; SILICON CARBIDE;

DESIGN;

EID: 81855161312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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