POWER ELECTRONICS HANDBOOK, 3rd Edition

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The Power MOSFET

Issa Batarseh, Ph.D.

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, Florida, USA

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Switching in Power Electronic Circuits

4.3 General Switching Characteristics

4.3.1 The Ideal Switch

4.3.2 The Practical Switch

4.4 The Power MOSFET

4.4.1 MOSFET Structure

4.4.2 MOSFET Regions of Operation

4.4.3 MOSFET Switching Characteristics

4.4.4 MOSFET PSPICE Model

4.4.5 MOSFET Large-signal Model

4.4.6 Current MOSFET Performance

4.5 Future Trends in Power Devices

    References

4.1 Introduction

In this chapter, an overview of power MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) semiconductor switching devices will be given. The ...