November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
27h 59m
English
This chapter introduces the thyristor semiconductor device together with its respective I–V characteristics, operation modes, and dynamic switching characteristics. In this chapter, the half-wave thyristor rectifier topology is analyzed for different types of loads and a block diagram of a thyristor gate drive circuit is presented. Solved problems and simulation results are presented to help the reader understand the theory presented in the chapter.
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