Preliminary Evaluation of Super GTOS in Pulse Application

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1235-1239

  Podlesak, Thomas F ^a   Thomas, Richard L ^a   Simon, Frank M ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

di dt; gate; module; thyristors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008054013     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.853034     Document Type: Article

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