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Reduction of oscillations in a GaN bridge leg using active gate driving with sub-ns resolution, arbitrary gate-resistance patterns

Dymond et al., 2016

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Document ID
15020526410430171084
Author
Dymond H
Liu D
Wang J
Dalton J
McNeill N
Pamunuwa D
Hollis S
Stark B
Publication year
Publication venue
2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)

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Active gate driving provides an opportunity to reduce EMI in power electronic circuits. Whilst it has been demonstrated for MOS-gated silicon power semiconductor devices, reported advanced gate driving in wide-bandgap devices has been limited to a single impedance …
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