Toward reliable power electronics: Challenges, design tools, and opportunities

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 17-26

  Wang, Huai ^a   Liserre, Marco ^b   Blaabjerg, Frede ^b  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SCHEMES; DESIGN TOOL; ELECTRICAL POWER; END USERS; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; POWER DENSITIES; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84879957467     PISSN: 19324529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIE.2013.2252958     Document Type: Article

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