Alleviating common-mode interference effects in phase-switched power device gate driver circuit
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Neville McNeill; Derrick Holliday; Philip H. Mellor
- Source
- Electronics Letters. 44:880
- Subject
- Materials science
business.industry
Electrical engineering
Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY
Common-mode interference
Network topology
Capacitance
law.invention
law
Power electronics
Electronic engineering
Gate driver
Commutation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Transformer
Electronic circuit
- Language
- ISSN
- 0013-5194
The number of transformers in isolated power device gate driver circuits may be reduced in bridge-leg topologies by using a phase-switched carrier technique. However, susceptibility to the effects of transient currents injected through inter-winding capacitances is increased. This is addressed in this reported work.