Transformerless capacitive coupling of gate signals for series operation of power MOS devices

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 923-930

  Hess, Herbert L ^a,b   Baker, Russel Jacob ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; MOS DEVICES; MOSFET DEVICES;

GATE SIGNALS; INPUT VOLTAGE SIGNALS; TRANSFORMERLESS CAPACITIVE COUPLING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0034269295     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.867682     Document Type: Article

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