Introduction : power electronics challenges -- Junction diodes / Lin Liang -- Thyristors / Jan Vobecky -- Silicon MOSFETs / Gerald Deboy -- Silicon IGBTs / Munaf Rahimo and Paula Díaz Reigosa -- IGCTs / Eric Carroll -- Silicon carbide diods / Jens Peter Konrath -- SiC MOSFETs / Luca Maresca, Alessandro Borghese, Gianpaolo Romano, Asad Fayyaz, Michele Riccio, Giovanni Breglio, Alberto Castellazzi and Andrea Irace -- GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors / Shu Yang and Shaowen Han -- Gallium nitride transistors : applications and vertical solutions / Giorgia Longobardi -- Module design and reliability / Daohui Li, Xiaoping Dai and Guoyou Liu -- Switching cell design / Eckart Hoene and Kirill Klein -- Modern insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) gate driving methods for robustness and reliability / Haoze Luo, Wuhua Li and Francesco Iannuzzo -- Prospects and outlooks in power electronics technology and market / Elena Barbarini
Summary
The book contains 14 chapters. The following topics are dealt with: Power Electronics challenges; Junction diodes; Thyristors; Silicon MOSFETs; Silicon IGBTs; IGCTs; Silicon carbide diodes; SiC MOSFETs; GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors; Gallium nitride transistors: applications and vertical solutions; Module design and reliability; Switching cell design; Modern insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) gate driving methods for robustness and reliability; and Prospects and outlooks in power electronics technology and market