Fig. 1: The silicon-controlled rectifier One major aspect of development in broadcast transmitter technology and power electronics is in the area of power control. On the traditional transformer, we ...
A gate turn-off switch, also known as a gate-controlled switch (GCS) or gate turn-off thyristor (GTO), is similar to an SCR but can be turned off by a negative signal on the gate terminal. GTOs ...
The SCR is a switching semiconductor device, whose theoretical basics were published by Moll et al. in 1956 1. Although lower power parts have almost disappeared from the contemporary switching scene ...