Performance evaluation of an emitter switched thyristor for resonant converter applications

Author

Trivedi, M. ; Winterhalter, C. ; Li, H.H. ; Shenai, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

21-24 Feb 1995

Firstpage

13

Abstract

This paper reports on the static and dynamic switching characteristics of an emitter switched thyristor (EST) for resonant power converter applications. Two-dimensional (2-D) mixed device and circuit simulations were used to study the carrier switching dynamics. It is shown that during turn-on, the EST has better performance than an IGBT with significantly enhanced drift region conductivity modulation. Thyristor-like on-state operation of EST leads to a slight degradation of the turn-off performance as compared to the IGBT

Keywords

network analysis; resonant power convertors; semiconductor device models; switching circuits; thyristor convertors; thyristors; applications; carrier switching dynamics; circuit simulation; device simulation; drift region conductivity modulation; dynamic switching characteristics; emitter switched thyristor; on-state operation; resonant power converter; static switching characteristics; turn-off performance; turn-on; Circuit simulation; Conductivity; Degradation; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Resonance; Static power converters; Switching circuits; Switching converters; Thyristors; Two dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 1995., Proceedings of 1995 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2423-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDS.1995.404954

Filename

404954