Title :
Improvement of a bidirectional field effect transistor (FET) switch with less loss
Author :
Benboujema, Chawki ; Schellmanns, Ambroise ; Ventura, Laurent ; Lequeu, Thierry
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Microelectron. de Puissance (LMP), Univ. de Tours, Tours, France
Abstract :
In this paper, we suggest a new behaviour for a MOSFET bidirectional switch for AC main application. We use two transistors of high voltage power MOSFET new technology based on the CoolMOS, one to control the forward current, and the second one to short-circuit the complementary diode, thus, for the first time, significantly decrease its power dissipation. For that, we must improve the power transistor´s with the low switching losses (RDS(on)).
Keywords :
power MOSFET; power semiconductor diodes; power semiconductor switches; CoolMOS; MOSFET switch; bidirectional field effect transistor switch; diode; forward current; high voltage power MOSFET; power dissipation; short circuit; switching losses; Bridge circuits; FETs; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Low voltage; MOSFET circuits; Power MOSFET; Semiconductor diodes; Switches; Thyristors; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 2009. ISIE 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4347-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4349-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2009.5213761