A resonant MOSFET gate driver with efficient energy recovery

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 470-477

  Chen, Yuhui ^a   Lee, Fred C ^b   Amoroso, Luca ^c   Wu, Ho Pu ^c  

^a LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORP   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; High frequency; IGBT; Power MOSFET; PWM; Resonant gate drive

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INDUCTANCE; MOSFET DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; GATE DRIVE LOSS; RESONANT GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT;

CIRCUIT RESONANCE;

EID: 1842527611     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.823206     Document Type: Article

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