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Developments of SiC devices and SiC inverters aimed at electric power applications
Author(s) -
Sugawara Yoshitaka
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
electrical engineering in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1520-6416
pISSN - 0424-7760
DOI - 10.1002/eej.23213
Subject(s) - electrical engineering , power (physics) , viewpoints , electric power , power semiconductor device , materials science , power module , engineering physics , engineering , voltage , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics
The developments of SiC power devices has been proceeded remarkably since 1990. SiC power devices have been payed attentions as one of the candidate power devices for next HVDC transmissions and its R&Ds have been started in the KANSAI electric power company since 1995. In this paper, a series of R&Ds for the SiC devices and SiC inverters performed in the company are presented from the historical viewpoints.