• DocumentCode
    3462317
  • Title

    The techniques of the serial and paralleled IGBTs

  • Author

    Chen, Jiann-Fuh ; Lin, Jiunn-Nan ; Ai, Tsu-Hua

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    5-10 Aug 1996
  • Firstpage
    999
  • Abstract
    To extend the rating ranges of current and voltage of IGBT, the serial and parallel methods are presented in this paper. For serial techniques, it is found that the voltage sharing can be made to balance by adding an RCD snubber and an adequate balancing resistor in each IGBT in series. For the parallel method, a parallel scheme using a current feedback method is proposed in this paper. The above serial and parallel techniques prove that the currents of paralleled IGBTs and the voltages of IGBTs in series can be balanced by experiments
  • Keywords
    feedback; insulated gate bipolar transistors; residual current devices; resistors; snubbers; RCD snubber; balancing resistor; current feedback method; current rating; paralleled IGBT; serial IGBT; voltage rating; voltage sharing; Capacitors; Costs; Current density; Frequency; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; MOSFETs; Power electronics; Resistors; Snubbers; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE IECON 22nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2775-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IECON.1996.566015
  • Filename
    566015