Survey on reliability of power electronic systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 591-604

  Song, Yantao ^a   Wang, Bingsen ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; fault tolerant operation; power electronic systems; reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT OPERATIONS; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84866506887     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2192503     Document Type: Article

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