With the race towards highest efficiency, innovative topologies are more often considered for the development of new power conversion products. A device with the low ON state voltage of an IGBT and ...

Given enough time, most engineers have the right intentions. As an engineer, how often do you want to understand how every part behaves in the circuit application? Yes – check. Are models from ...

This application note covers the topic of calculating gate driver power and thermal dissipation of the gate drive optocoupler IC. Gate drive optocouplers are used to drive, turning-on and off , power ...

Using a gate drive optocoupler with MOSFET buffer driving capability enables users to scale IGBT gate drive designs to the power requirements for a wide range of motor drive and inverter systems.

Power semiconductor devices such as SiC MOSFETs, IGBT, and GaN are experiencing increasingly fierce competition in EV, charging pile, energy storage, and renewable energy applications, but their ...

In recent years, power semiconductor applications have expanded from industrial and consumer electronics to renewable energy and electric vehicles. Looking to the future, the most promising power ...

Wide-bandgap (WBG) technologies, such as gallium-nitride (GaN) devices and silicon-carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, have recently made their way to electrified powertrain (e-powertrain) applications. These ...