Step Up Chopper – Circuit and Working Principle
A step-up chopper is similar to a step-up transformer whose output voltage is greater than the input supply voltage. The below shows the circuit configuration of the step-up chopper.
Power Electronics is the branch of electrical and electronics engineering that deals in processing and controlling electrical energy required by the load.
A step-up chopper is similar to a step-up transformer whose output voltage is greater than the input supply voltage. The below shows the circuit configuration of the step-up chopper.
An SCR or thyristor can be turned ON by switching it from the forward blocking mode to forward conduction mode with the following methods
An SCR is a controlled rectifier made up of p-type and n-type semiconductor material belonging to the thyristor family. It consists of three terminals anode, cathode, and gate, and works similar to a diode when a pulse is applied to the gate terminal.
The insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a semiconductor device developed with combined characteristics of MOSFET and BJT. It has emitter-collector characteristics as BJT and control features of MOSFET.
An IGBT is a new development in power semiconductor devices that possess the advantages of both MOSFET and BJT. A MOSFET is a unipolar three/four-terminal voltage-controlled device.
An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a semiconductor structure of alternate layers of p-type and n-type doping. With the combination of an easily driven MOS gate and low conduction loss,
IGBT standards for Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor. It is another development in the power electronics field also called COMFET (conductivity modulated field-effect transistor), IGT (insulated gate transistor), GEMFET, or bipolar MOSFET. IGBT combines the properties of BJT (bipolar junction transistor)