High-frequency integrated gate drivers for half-bridge GaN power stage

2014 IEEE 15th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Yuanzhe ^a   Rodriguez, Miguel ^a   Maksimovic, Dragan ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM NITRIDE; SILICON CARBIDE;

BOOTSTRAPPED DRIVER; DEPLETION MODES; GATE DRIVERS; HALF-BRIDGE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTEGRATED DRIVER; OPERATING POINTS; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTER;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84906821095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPEL.2014.6877120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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