A resonant MOSFET gate driver with complete energy recovery

Author

Chen, Yuhui ; Lee, Fred C. ; Amoroso, Luca ; Wu, Ho-Pu

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

402

Abstract

At high frequency power conversion applications, the power loss in driving power MOSFETs is significant. To reduce this loss, some resonant MOSFET gate drive schemes have been published. In this paper, a new resonant gate driver is proposed. In contrast with other gate drive schemes, the proposed driver features complete energy recovery during both charging and discharging transitions, as well as minimized conduction loss. Simulation and experiment results show that the proposed driver can reduce MOSFET gate drive loss very effectively

Keywords

driver circuits; losses; power MOSFET; power convertors; MOSFET gate drive loss reduction; charging transition; complete energy recovery; discharging transition; gate drive schemes; high frequency power conversion; minimized conduction loss; power MOSFET driving; power loss; resonant MOSFET gate driver; Application software; Driver circuits; Drives; Inductors; MOSFET circuits; Power MOSFET; Power electronics; Resonance; Switching frequency; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2000. Proceedings. IPEMC 2000. The Third International

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

7-80003-464-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEMC.2000.885437

Filename

885437