Evaluation of high voltage SiC diodes in a medium frequency AC/DC converter for railway traction

SPEEDAM 2012 - 21st International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1182-1186

  Casarin, Jérémy ^a   Ladoux, Philippe ^a   Chauchat, Bertrand ^b   Dedecius, Darius ^c   Laugt, Emmanuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b ALSTOM   (France)

^c Institut Universitaire de Technologie   (France)

Author keywords

Power Semiconductors Switches; Rail transportation; Silicon Carbide; Static Power Converters

Indexed keywords

AC/DC CONVERTERS; HIGH VOLTAGE; MEDIUM FREQUENCIES; NEW HIGH; OPERATING LIMIT; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; POWER SUPPLY; RAIL TRANSPORTATION; RAILWAY TRACTION; SIC DIODES; SILICON CARBIDE DEVICES; SOFT COMMUTATION; STATIC POWER CONVERTERS; SWITCHING CONDITIONS; SWITCHING LOSS; TEST BENCHES;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SILICON CARBIDE; SOFT SWITCHING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84866924293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM.2012.6264491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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