Gating Effects on Thyristor Anode Current di/dt
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- Vol. PE-2 (2) , 149-153
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.1987.4766349
Abstract
Triggering measurements were performed on thyristors with different gate geometries at various combinations of peak gate current, gate pulsewidth, and gate di/dt, to determine the trigger dependence of pulsed anode current di/dt. Peak gate current was varied from 4 A to 12 A, gate pulse width from 250 ns to 8 μs, and leading edge di/dt from 23 A/μs to 320 A/μs. Only the peak gate current was found to affect pulsed anode current di/dt.Keywords
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