Conduction Performance Evaluation of Silicon and SiC Power Semiconductors for Solid-State DC Breakers

The main obstacle for the further development and commercialization of solid-state DC circuit breakers is the high ON-state power losses caused by the active power semiconductor devices. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the electrical ON-state performance among several commercial hi...

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Published in:	IEEE Access
Main Authors:	Andreas Giannakis, Dimosthenis Peftitsis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2022-01-01
Subjects:	DC circuit breakers losses power semiconductor devices
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9874788/

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