A new resonant gate drive circuit with efficient energy recovery and low conduction loss

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 650-655

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

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION LOSS; RESONANT GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT; RESONANT INDUCTANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOSFET DEVICES; RESONANCE; SWITCHES;

INDUCTANCE;

EID: 33749658221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1568981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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