Turn-on loss reduction of 6.5kV/500 a trench/field-stop IGBTs using a simple GDU

2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3671-3678

  Kleinichen, Philipp ^a   Alvarez, Rodrigo ^a   Buschendorf, Martin ^a   Bernet, Steffen ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVING METHOD; LOSS REDUCTION; OPERATING POINTS; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; TIMING CONTROL; TRACTION TRANSFORMER;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84891122623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2013.6647185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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