A 1-MHz high-efficiency 12-V buck voltage regulator with a new current-source gate driver

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2817-2827

  Zhang, Zhiliang ^a   Eberle, Wilson ^b   Lin, Ping ^c   Liu, Yan Fei ^a   Sen, Paresh C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Current source gate driver; Microprocessor; Power MOSFET; Resonant gate driver; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEAT CONDUCTION; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC CORES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOSFET DEVICES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

CURRENT-SOURCE GATE DRIVER; MICROPROCESSOR; POWER MOSFET; RESONANT GATE DRIVER; VOLTAGE REGULATOR (VR);

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 59749095332     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2005387     Document Type: Article

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