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Power MOSFET tutorial, Part 1

Power MOSFETs are well known for superior switching speed, and they require very little gate drive power because of the insulated gate. In these respects, power MOSFETs approach the characteristics of ...
Electronic Design

Selecting n-channel MOSFETs for High-Side Hot-Swap Control

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. TYPICAL HIGH-SIDE, n-channel, hot-swap “soft-switch” systems use a charge pump to drive the gate of an external MOSFET ...
Compound Semiconductor

USTC team develops GaN/diamond CMOS power circuit

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and collaborators have manufactured a high-performance normally-off diamond p-FET featuring high-density 2D hole gas (HG) with ...
EDN

Power MOSFET Tutorial – Part 2

V (BR)DSS (sometimes called BVDSS) is the drain-source voltage at which no more than the specified drain current will flow at the specified temperature and with zero gate-source voltage. This tracks ...