Experimental characterisation of high efficiency resonant gate driver circuit

C. Abbate; G. Busatto; F. Iannuzzo; L. Fratelli

doi:10.1109/EPE.2007.4417585

Experimental characterisation of high efficiency resonant gate driver circuit

C. Abbate^*, G. Busatto, F. Iannuzzo, L. Fratelli

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Abstract

In high frequency power conversion applications, the power driver losses can become relevant and consequently the converter efficiency be reduced. In the last years, several gate driver topologies have been proposed able to reduce these losses. In this paper a high frequency, high efficiency resonant MOSFET gate driver is extended to high frequency operation, constructed and characterised. The experimental results show an energy reduction up to 78%, and suggest the possibility to increase the switching frequency until 2.6MHz. A detailed experimental characterisation and some theoretical considerations are reported.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2007 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE
Publication date	1 Dec 2007
Article number	4417585
ISBN (Print)	9075815115, 9789075815115
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2007.4417585
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	2007 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE - Aalborg, Denmark Duration: 2 Sep 2007 → 5 Sep 2007 Conference number: 12

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Conference	2007 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE
Number	12
Country	Denmark
City	Aalborg
Period	02/09/2007 → 05/09/2007

Keywords

High frequency driver
Resonant ZVS
Soft switching converters
ZCS driver

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