Characterization of 6.5 kV IGBTs for high-power medium-frequency soft-switched applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 906-919

  Dujic, Drazen ^a   Steinke, Gina K ^a   Bellini, Marco ^a   Rahimo, Munaf ^a   Storasta, Liutauras ^a   Steinke, Juergen K ^a,b  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); resonant converter; soft switching

Indexed keywords

GALVANIC ISOLATION; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH-VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTORS; LLC RESONANT CONVERTER; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; RESONANT CONVERTERS; SOFT-SWITCHING TECHNIQUE; SWITCHING PROPERTIES;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER ELECTRONICS; SOFT SWITCHING;

SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

EID: 84883212090     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2259264     Document Type: Article

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