DC technologies will be essential building blocks for future DC distribution networks. As in
any DC system, these networks will face crucial threats imposed by short-circuit DC faults …

The design of electric power systems (EPSs) for the aviation industry has become a major
research area to reduce the global annual CO2 emission caused by the transportation …

Silicon-controlled rectifier-based dc solid-state circuit breakers (SCR-SSCBs) have received
an increased attention for their ease of control and high efficiency, but their considerable …

Due to numerous advantages of thyristors, such as low conduction loss and low cost, using
thyristors to design solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) to protect dc microgrids has become …

Solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) have been widely used to achieve actively and high-
efficiency turn off. However, the conduction losses and costs may significantly increase …

Thyristor-based solid-state circuit breakers (TCBs) have become a popular protection
solution for DC microgrids, due to their low construction cost, high efficiency, and fast …

Increasingly, dc microgrids are attracting attention because of their universality, high
efficiency, and potential application market. To enhance the fault protection of dc systems …

The mixture unidirectional solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) based on transistor-based
devices [ie, IGBT-based line commutation switch (LCS)] and the thyristor-based devices can …

Lots of dc circuit breakers have been proposed for protecting medium voltage dc systems.
However, they normally have one or more following limitations: low operational reliability …

Compared with the solid-state circuit breakers based on insulated-gate bipolar transistor
and MOSFET, circuit breakers based on thyristors have higher capacity and lower cost …