A 120 °c Ambient Temperature Forced Air-Cooled Normally-off SiC JFET Automotive Inverter System

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2345-2358

  Wrzecionko, Benjamin ^a   Bortis, Dominik ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automotive applications; automotive electronics; electronics cooling; high temperature techniques; inverters; JFET switches; silicon carbide (SiC)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; ELECTRONICS COOLING; HIGH-TEMPERATURE TECHNIQUES; JFET SWITCHES; SILICON CARBIDES (SIC);

AIR; AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; HYBRID VEHICLES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILICON CARBIDE; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84893102070     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2294906     Document Type: Article

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