High voltage zero qrr bootstrap supply
AssigneeEfficient Power Conversion Corporation
InventorsMichael A. De Rooij, Johan T. Strydom, David C. Reusch
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Abstract
An electrical circuit arranged in a half bridge topology. The electrical circuit includes a high side transistor; a low side transistor; a gate driver and level shifter electrically coupled to a gate of the high side transistor; a gate driver electrically coupled to a gate of the low side transistor; a capacitor electrically coupled in parallel with the gate driver and level shifter; a voltage source electrically coupled to an input of the gate driver and level shifter and an input of the gate driver; and, a bootstrap transistor electrically coupled between the voltage source and the capacitor. A GaN field-effect transistor is synchronously switched with a low side device of the half bridge circuit.
Claims25
An electrical circuit arranged in a half bridge topology, comprising:
- a high side transistor;
- a low side transistor;
- a gate driver and level shifter electrically coupled to a gate of the high side transistor;
- a gate driver electrically coupled to a gate of the low side transistor;
- a capacitor electrically coupled in parallel with the gate driver and level shifter;
- a voltage source electrically coupled to an input of the gate driver and level shifter and an input of the gate driver;
- and,
- a bootstrap device electrically coupled between the voltage source and the capacitor;
- wherein the bootstrap device is a transistor.
A method of bootstrapping a half bridge circuit comprising:
- synchronously switching a GaN field-effect transistor with a low side device of the half bridge circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.