International Journal of Power Management Electronics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 891027, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/891027
Research Article

Silicon Carbide Emitter Turn-Off Thyristor

Jun Wang,1 Gangyao Wang,1 Jun Li,1 Alex Q. Huang,1 Jerry Melcher,2 and Stan Atcitty3

1Semiconductor Power Electronics Center (SPEC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
2Solitronics LLC, Cary, NC 27518, USA
3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA

Received 5 February 2008; Accepted 27 April 2008

Academic Editor: Ty McNutt

Copyright © 2008 Jun Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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