Advanced High Voltage Power Device Concepts

• Main Author: Baliga, B. Jayant (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Solid state physics.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Power electronics.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Circuits and Systems.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Solid State Physics.

Advanced High Voltage Power Device Concepts describes devices utilized in power transmission and distribution equipment, and for very high power motor control in electric trains and steel-mills. Since these devices must be capable of supporting more than 5000-volts in the blocking mode, this books c...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Silicon Thyristors
• 3 Silicon Carbide Thyristors
• 4 Silicon GTO
• 5 Silicon IGBT
• 6 SiC Planar MOSFET Structures
• 7 Silicon Carbide IGBT
• 8 Silicon MCT
• 9 Silicon BRT
• 10 Silicon EST
• 11 Synopsis.