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Ranbir Singh
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Power Semiconductor Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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B. Jayant Baliga
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Power Semiconductor Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 1-10
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 11-24
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 25-35
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 37-48
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 49-63
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 65-81
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 83-94
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 95-103
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 105-115
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 117-126
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- Ranbir Singh, B. Jayant Baliga
Pages 127-135
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Back Matter
Pages 137-148
About this book
The advent of low temperature superconductors in the early 1960's converted what had been a laboratory curiosity with very limited possibilities to a prac tical means of fabricating electrical components and devices with lossless con ductors. Using liquid helium as a coolant, the successful construction and operation of high field strength magnet systems, alternators, motors and trans mission lines was announced. These developments ushered in the era of what may be termed cryogenic power engineering and a decade later successful oper ating systems could be found such as the 5 T saddle magnet designed and built in the United States by the Argonne National Laboratory and installed on an experimental power generating facility at the High Temperature Institute in Moscow, Russia. The field of digital computers provided an incentive of a quite different kind to operate at cryogenic temperatures. In this case, the objective was to ob tain higher switching speeds than are possible at ambient temperatures with the critical issue being the operating characteristics of semiconductor switches under cryogenic conditions. By 1980, cryogenic electronics was established as another branch of electric engineering.