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

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2213-2221

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

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gate drive; Gate loss; Gate energy recovery; MOSFET gate drive; MOSFET gate driver; Resonant gate drive; Resonant gate driver

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INDUCTANCE; MOSFET DEVICES;

GATE DRIVE; GATE LOSS; GATE-ENERGY RECOVERY; MOSFET GATE DRIVE; MOSFET GATE DRIVER; RESONANT GATE DRIVE; RESONANT GATE DRIVER;

RESONANT CIRCUITS;

EID: 44349191069     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.918636     Document Type: Article

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