Looking for something unrelated, I stumbled into this white paper, which I believe will be of great interest to people interested in Power Electronics.
The WP’s name is a little misleading, as the real breakthrough IMHO, is the use of JFETs as switching devices. JFET devices are normally ON, so how do you use them for switching? With a cascode configuration, that is how.
Please read and comment. As I mentioned earlier, if these devices really deliver the performance gains and don’t have some weird failure mechanisms, they have the power (pun intended) to revolutionize the SMPS industry.
What do you think?
The WP’s name is a little misleading, as the real breakthrough IMHO, is the use of JFETs as switching devices. JFET devices are normally ON, so how do you use them for switching? With a cascode configuration, that is how.
Please read and comment. As I mentioned earlier, if these devices really deliver the performance gains and don’t have some weird failure mechanisms, they have the power (pun intended) to revolutionize the SMPS industry.
What do you think?
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