gate charge in IGBT module

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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So the charge transfer to turn the device on and off is roughly Vge * C where Vge is the gate-emitter voltage when the transistor is on, and C is the input capacitance.

Thus you will need a healthy gate driver to turn that transistor rapidly on and off.
 
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