Characterization of the voltage and electric field stresses in multi-cell Solid-State Transformers

2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4726-4734

  Guillod, Thomas ^a   Huber, Jonas E ^a   Ortiz, Gabriel ^a   De, Ankan ^b   Franck, Christian M ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric field; Insulation; Medium frequency transformer; Multi cell converter; Solid State Transformers

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DC TRANSFORMERS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INSULATION;

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD STRESS; HIGH-FREQUENCY HARMONICS; MEDIUM FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER; MULTI-CELL CONVERTERS; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER (SST); TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TRANSFORMER INSULATION;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER INSULATION;

EID: 84934326099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6954048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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