A New Resonant Gate-Drive Circuit With Efficient Energy Recovery and Low Conduction Loss. Eberle, W., Liu, Y., & Sen, P. C. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 55(5):2213-2221, May, 2008.
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In this paper, a new resonant gate-drive circuit is proposed to recover a portion of the power-MOSFET-gate energy that is typically dissipated in high-frequency converters. The proposed circuit consists of four control switches and a small resonant inductance. The current through the resonant inductance is discontinuous in order to minimize circulating-current conduction loss that is present in other methods. The proposed circuit also achieves quick turn-on and turn-off transition times to reduce switching and conduction losses in power MOSFETs. An analysis, a design procedure, and experimental results are presented for the proposed circuit. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed driver can recover 51% of the gate energy at 5-V gate-drive voltage.
@ARTICLE{4455587,
  author={Eberle, Wilson and Liu, Yan-Fei and Sen, Paresh C.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics}, 
  title={A New Resonant Gate-Drive Circuit With Efficient Energy Recovery and Low Conduction Loss}, 
  year={2008},
  volume={55},
  number={5},
  pages={2213-2221},
  abstract={In this paper, a new resonant gate-drive circuit is proposed to recover a portion of the power-MOSFET-gate energy that is typically dissipated in high-frequency converters. The proposed circuit consists of four control switches and a small resonant inductance. The current through the resonant inductance is discontinuous in order to minimize circulating-current conduction loss that is present in other methods. The proposed circuit also achieves quick turn-on and turn-off transition times to reduce switching and conduction losses in power MOSFETs. An analysis, a design procedure, and experimental results are presented for the proposed circuit. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed driver can recover 51% of the gate energy at 5-V gate-drive voltage.},
  keywords={Resonance;RLC circuits;Driver circuits;MOSFETs;Switches;Inductors;Voltage;Switching frequency;Switching circuits;Inductance;Gate drive;gate-energy recovery;gate loss;MOSFET gate drive;MOSFET gate driver;resonant gate drive;resonant gate driver;gate drive;resonant gate drive;resonant gate driver;MOSFET gate drive;MOSFET gate driver;gate energy recovery;gate loss;current source drive},
  doi={10.1109/TIE.2008.918636},
  ISSN={1557-9948},
  month={May},}

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