IGBT Tutorial: Part 1 - Selection |
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
Find out what an IGBT is and the tradeoffs you need to know about before making a selection. The insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) combines an easily driven MOS gate and low conduction loss, and is quickly displacing power bipolar transistors as the device of choice for high current and high voltage applications. The balance in tradeoffs between switching speed, conduction loss, and ruggedness is now being finely tuned so that IGBTs are encroaching upon the high frequency, high efficiency domain of power MOSFETs. In fact, the industry trend is for IGBTs to replace power MOSFETs except in very low current applications. Part 1 helps you understand the tradeoffs and helps with IGBT device selection, application and a relatively painless overview of IGBT technology. Part 2 provides an example walkthrough of IGBT datasheet information....more  (0) Comments
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