ABB is committed to continuously improving and developing their IGCT switching platform. This is in support of existing and new applications featuring energy efficient solutions for industry and applications supporting power quality solutions. High industrial voltages levels up to 6 kV are supported by single switch IGCT solutions, while still being able to switch off large currents in a controllable way under low loss conditions in a single device.

    ABB is also committed to improving and developing the fast recovery diodes needed to complement the converter design. The new generation of free recovery diodes will have low losses, high temperature operation and soft switching behaviour so that excessive voltage and current peaks in the device can be avoided during the switching periods of high MVA power.