Distributed magnetic coupling synchronizes a stacked 25-kV MOSFET switch

Author

Keith, William Douglas ; Pringle, Dan ; Rice, Paul ; Birke, Paul V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Food Sci., Guelph Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

61

Abstract

This paper reports the development of a stacked MOSFET switch with a uniformly distributed magnetic structure to coherently deliver 45-ns rise-time pulses from a 25-kV power supply. Gate jitter problems were avoided. This circuit is currently in use delivering variable-width 50-kV pulses for an electric field generator. These fields are applied to dry food samples at up to a 300-Hz repetition rate using oppositely biased floating MOSFET stacks for simultaneous switching of two 25-kV power supplies

Keywords

magnetic structure; power MOSFET; power semiconductor switches; switched mode power supplies; switching circuits; 25 kV; 300 Hz; 45 ns; 50 kV; distributed magnetic coupling; electric field generator; oppositely-biased floating MOSFET stacks; power supply; pulse repetition rate; pulse rise-time; simultaneous switching; stacked MOSFET switch; synchronisation; uniformly distributed magnetic structure; Coupling circuits; Jitter; MOSFET circuits; Magnetic switching; Power MOSFET; Power supplies; Pulse circuits; Pulse generation; Pulsed power supplies; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8993

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/63.817363

Filename

817363