15 kV SiC IGBT based three-phase three-level modular-leg power converter

2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3291-3298

  Patel, Dhaval C ^a   Kadavelugu, Arun ^a   Madhusoodhanan, Sachin ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhashish ^a   Hatua, Kamalesh ^b   Leslie, Scott ^c   Ryu, Sei Hyung ^d   Grider, David ^d   Agarwal, Anant ^d  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c Powerex   (United States)

^d Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC LINK CAPACITOR; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; FAULT PROTECTION; FRONT-END CONVERTERS; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER; INTELLIGENT POWER; LOW INDUCTANCE; TRANSFORMERLESS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84891113691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2013.6647132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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