Semiconductor Devices for Power Conditioning

✍ Scribed by H. Stemmler (auth.), Roland Sittig, P. Roggwiller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Series: Earlier Brown Boveri Symposia
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Brown Boveri Symposia are by now part of firmly established tradition. This is the seventh event in a series which was initiated shortly afer Corporate Research was established as a separate entity within our Company; the Symposia are held every other year. The themes to date have been 1969 Flow Research on Blading 1971 Real-Time Control of Electric Power Systems 1973 High-Temperature Materials in Gas Turbines 1975 Nonemissive Electrooptic Displays 1977 Current Interruption in High-Voltage Networks 1979 Surges in High-Voltage Networks 1981 Semiconductor Devices for Power Conditioning Why have we chosen these titles? At the outset we established certain selection criteria; we felt that a subject for a Symposium should fulfill the following require­ ments: It should characterize a part of a thoroughly scientific discipline; in other words, it should describe an area of scholarly study and research. It should be of current interest in the sense that important results have recently been obtained and considerable research effort is underway in the international scientific community. It should bear some relation to the scientific and technological acitivity of our Company. Let us look at the requirement "current interest": Some of the topics on the list have been the subject of research for several decades, some even from the beginning of the century. One might wonder, then, why such fields could be regarded as particularly timely in the 1960s and 1970s. A few remarks on this subject therefore are in order.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
High-Power Installations Using Semiconductor Devices, Interactions Between Semiconductors and Converters....Pages 1-25
High-Power Thyristors....Pages 27-48
Light-Activated Thyristors....Pages 49-82
Open Discussion....Pages 83-89
Gate Turn-Off Thyristors....Pages 91-121
Converters with High Internal Frequency....Pages 123-149
Reverse-Conducting Thyristors....Pages 151-175
Open Discussion....Pages 177-182
Analysis and Design of High-Power Rectifiers....Pages 183-213
Physical Limitations and Exploratory Devices....Pages 215-239
Junction Field-Effect Devices....Pages 241-272
Bipolar Transistors....Pages 273-306
Power Mosfets....Pages 307-329
Epi and Schottky Diodes....Pages 331-356
Open Discussion....Pages 357-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-365

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering