A current source gate driver achieving switching loss savings and gate energy recovery at 1-MHz

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 678-691

  Eberle, Wilson ^a   Zhang, Zhiliang ^a   Liu, Yan Fei ^a   Sen, Paresh C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET); Root mean square (RMS); Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; MOS DEVICES; MOSFET DEVICES; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

BOOST CONVERTER; CONDUCTION LOSS; CURRENT SOURCE GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT; SWITCHING LOSS;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 41549105455     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.915769     Document Type: Article

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