Analysis and evaluation of DC-link capacitors for high-power-density electric vehicle drive systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2950-2964

  Wen, Huiqing ^a   Xiao, Weidong ^a   Wen, Xuhui ^b   Armstrong, Peter ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Direct current (dc) link capacitor; electric vehicles (EVs); equivalent series resistance (ESR); parasitic inductance; power density; ripple current stress

Indexed keywords

DIRECT-CURRENT; EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTANCE; PARASITIC INDUCTANCES; POWER DENSITIES; RIPPLE CURRENTS;

DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

EID: 84866507958     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2206082     Document Type: Article

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