Advances in Power Conversion and Drives for Shipboard Systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2285-2311

  Wang, Fei ^a   Zhang, Zheyu ^a   Ericsen, Terry ^b   Raju, Ravisekhar ^c   Burgos, Rolando ^d   Boroyevich, Dushan ^d  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric propulsion; Electric vehicles; Integrated power systems; Marine vehicles; Motor drives; Power converters; Power semiconductor devices; Power system dynamics; Silicon carbide

Indexed keywords

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION; ELECTRIC MOTORS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; GALLIUM NITRIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SHIPS; SILICON CARBIDE;

GALLIUM NITRIDES (GAN); INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEMS; MARINE VEHICLES; MOTOR DRIVE; POWER ELECTRONICS BUILDING BLOCKS; POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER (SST); WIDE-BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84960483404     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2495331     Document Type: Article

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