A new resonant gate drive circuit for synchronous buck converter

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 52-58

  Yang, Zhihua ^b,c   Ye, Sheng ^b   Liu, Yan Fei ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Paradigm Electronics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS; CONSTANT CURRENTS; GATE DRIVE LOSSES; RESONANT GATE DRIVE CIRCUITS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOSFET DEVICES; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

RESONANT CIRCUITS;

EID: 33749520203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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