Switching performance improvement of IGBT modules using an active gate driver

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1266-1273

  Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Shi, Xiaojie ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a   Blalock, Benjamin J ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SWITCHING; GATE DRIVE CIRCUITS; INDUCTIVE LOADS; REVERSE RECOVERY CURRENT; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE; SWITCHING STRESS; VOLTAGE OVERSHOOT;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER ELECTRONICS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84879327414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2013.6520462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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