Novel monitoring method and long-term reliabitity evaluation of power semiconductor devices in power utilities

In this paper, the relationship between failure rates of power semiconductor devices and their operation period is investigated to assure reliability and improve the renewal period of such equipment. And a novel monitoring method using a leakage current vector is proposed, and its superiority is estimated for the first time.

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