Dual-GCT design criteria and voltage scaling

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2596-2603

  Van Brunt, Edward ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Butschen, Thomas ^b   De Doncker, Rik W ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER REGION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DEVICE GEOMETRIES; DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGES; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; VOLTAGE-SCALING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

EXHIBITIONS;

EID: 84870888964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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