A Novel Driving and Protection Circuit for Reverse-Blocking IGBT Used in Matrix Converter

A Novel Driving and Protection Circuit for
Reverse-Blocking IGBT Used in Matrix Converter

Daning Zhou, Kai Sun, Student Member, IEEE, Zhichao Liu, Lipei Huang,
Kouki Matsuse, Fellow, IEEE, and Kiyoaki Sasagawa
D. Zhou, K. Sun, Z. Liu, and L. Huang are with the Department
of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
(e-mail: zhoudn02@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn; sun-kai@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn;
liuzhichao@tsinghua.org.cn; huanglipei@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn).
K. Matsuse is with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Meiji University, Kawasaki 214-8571, Japan (e-mail: matsuse@isc.meiji.ac.jp).
K. Sasagawa is with the Electronics Technology Laboratory, Fuji Electric
Advanced Technology Company, Ltd., Tokyo 191-8502, Japan (e-mail:
sasagawa-kiyoaki@fujielectric.co.