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Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

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For certain field-effect transistors (FETs) in soft-switching operation, the large-signal behavior of their output capacitance ( Co ) has shown to deviate considerably from the datasheet values. This can have a significant effect on hard-switching losses i ...

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Negative Resistance in Cascode Transistors

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2020

Exploration of Negative Capacitance Devices and Technologies

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In this letter, we present a new measurement technique to evaluate the large-signal output capacitance ( COSS ) of transistors as well as the COSS energy dissipation ( EDISS ), based on the nonlinear resonance between a known inductor and the output capaci ...

2019

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