EDN

SiC MOSFET Gate Drive Optocouplers

This white paper is an overview of SiC MOSFET Gate Drive Optocouplers. It discusses the advantages of SiC MOSFET being able to operate at high voltage, frequency, and temperature. It also discusses ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Adds Five New MOSFET Gate Driver ICs that Will Help Reduce Device Footprints

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has added five products to its lineup of MOSFET gate driver ICs in the TCK42xG Series for mobile devices ...
EDN

Improving MOSFET gate driver performance and stability

A recent problem with oscillation in a MOSFET gate driver had an engineer scrambling to find a solution to avoid shutting the production line down. It was hoped that reviewing the board design would ...
Electronic Design

MOSFET Synchronous Rectifiers Require Attention to Gate Charge

The switching speed of a power MOSFET charge-controlled device depends on the speed with which an associated gate driver circuit can charge its input capacitance. For the last 20 years, many excellent ...
Electronics Weekly

And a better discrete high-side mosfet gate drive

Having thought up and simulated a drive circuit for the synchronous rectifier in a Cuk converter, I thought I would wrap it all up by appling the things I learned to the original circuit – a high-side ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Short-Circuit Ruggedness In SiC MOSFETs

Trench-based silicon carbide power MOSFETs (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors) represent a dramatic improvement in the Figure of Merit (FOM) values of power conversion switching ...
inc42

What Is A MOSFET? Here’s All You Need to Know

A Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) is a fundamental building block of modern electronics. It is a field-effect transistor (FET) where the voltage applied to a terminal (gate) ...
Electronic Design

Simple Circuit Overcomes MOSFET Gate-Threshold Voltage Challenge

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. In some situations, it becomes necessary to drive a MOSFET (or IGBT) with a voltage that’s lower than its ...
Electronics Weekly

Trying to drive a Cuk synchronous rectifier mosfet

After discussing the three transistor high-side buck p-mosfet driver (a recognised circuit and not mine) with some of EW’s sage commenters, I wondered once again if I could design something similar ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Understand MOSFET Switch Behavior Via An LED Driver Simulation

Automotive incandescent bulbs have largely given way to more efficient, reliable, stylish, and even safer light emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs turn on in a fraction of the time and are especially useful ...
AZOM

MOSFETs and Their Advantages Over Other Transistors

Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) have revolutionized the world of electronics due to their remarkable performance and widespread applications. The MOSFET transistor is a ...
Hackaday

Beginner Concepts: MOSFETs

[Moser’s] introductory guide to MOSFETs serves as a quick introduction for those unfamiliar with the parts. They fill a similar role as a bipolar junction transistor like the 2N2222, making it ...