gate turn-off thyristor technical , GTO (Abkürzung)

The main electrical system is Toshiba's gate turn-off thyristor field chopper control used in the 1000 series.

The latter is known as a gate turn-off thyristor, or GTO thyristor.

A gate turn-off thyristor (GTO) is a special type of thyristor, which is a high-power semiconductor device.

Gate Turn-off Thyristor (GTO)

The six traction motors are supplied with three-phase electrical power by gate turn-off thyristor controlled inverters using pulse-width modulation controlled by a Siemens' Sibas-32 traction control electronics.

It takes advantage of water-cooled gate turn-off thyristor (GTO) semiconductor technology for pulse-width modulation inverters to supply power to the alternating current traction motors, located on a nose-suspended drive.

A distributed buffer gate turn-off thyristor (DB-GTO) is a thyristor with additional PN layers in the drift region to reshape the field profile and increase the voltage blocked in the off state.