A novel high performance resonant gate drive circuit with low circulating current

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 324-330

  Eberle, Wilson ^a,b   Sen, P C ^a,b   Liu, Yan Fei ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SWITCHES; SWITCHING LOSS; TRANSITION TIMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MOSFET DEVICES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RESONANCE;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 33749508508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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