Switching loss analysis considering parasitic loop inductance with current source drivers for buck converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1815-1819

  Zhang, Zhiliang ^a   Fu, Jizhen ^b   Liu, Yan Fei ^b   Sen, Paresh C ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buck converter; current source driver (CSD); power MOSFET; resonant gate driver; voltage regulator (VR); voltage regulator module (VRM)

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS; CURRENT SOURCES; POWER MOSFET; RESONANT GATE DRIVER; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE (VRM);

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOSFET DEVICES; OPTICAL LOSSES; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 80051704849     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2096476     Document Type: Article

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