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Turn-off strategies for low-saturation IGBTs to reduce turn-off losses

Nayampalli et al., 2021

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9733023799977788839
Author
Nayampalli V
da Cunha J
Eckel H
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2021 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'21 ECCE Europe)

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Loss-optimized turn-off strategies for modern" low-saturation" IGBTs are considered in this paper. TCAD turn-off simulations of the considered approaches reveal the possibility of substantially reducing the turn-off energy losses for such a low saturation IGBT model. An …
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