High speed low loss gate drive circuit

Tao, Fengfeng; Saddoughi, Seyed Gholamali; Herbon, John Thomas

Title: High speed low loss gate drive circuit

Patent · Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1159924

Tao, Fengfeng; Saddoughi, Seyed Gholamali; Herbon, John Thomas

A gate drive circuit includes an insulated gate semiconductor switch. A controlled current source is connected to the semiconductor switch gate terminal to provide a gate drive circuit that is responsive to recycled gate charge corresponding to an internal gate capacitance of the insulated gate semiconductor switch.

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Research Organization:: GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FC26-08NT05868

Assignee:: General Electric Company (Niskayuna, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 8,847,631

Application Number:: 13/336,669

OSTI ID:: 1159924

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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