A study on the IGBT's turn-off failure and inhomogeneous operation

17 December 2002

conference paper
conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 45-50
https://doi.org/10.1109/ispsd.1994.583642

Abstract

An IGBT fails to turn-off in a smaller operating area compared to a steady state one. In this paper, the authors show that inhomogeneous operation reduces the turn-off SOA of an IGBT, with newly developed experiments and simulations.

Keywords

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS
CIRCUIT TESTING
ROENTGENIUM
SPACE VECTOR PULSE WIDTH MODULATION
SNUBBERS
SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS
TAIL
AUTOMATIC TESTING
SURGES
VOLTAGE

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