EDN

High-Speed MOSFET Gate Drivers

The IXDD609/IXDI609/IXDN609 high-speed gate drivers are especially well suited for driving the latest IXYS MOSFETs and IGBTs. The IXD_609 high-current output can source and sink 9A of peak current ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Choosing A Gate Driver For Silicon Carbide MOSFETs

If you are going to use a silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) in your next development, you will ask yourself: how do I develop the best gate driver for it ...
Electronic Design

MOSFET Synchronous Rectifiers Require Attention to Gate Charge

The switching speed of a power MOSFET charge-controlled device depends on the speed with which an associated gate driver circuit can charge its input capacitance. For the last 20 years, many excellent ...
Nature

Technology and metrology of new electronic materials and devices

Scaling of the metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistor has been the basis of the semiconductor industry for nearly 30 years. Traditional materials have been pushed to their limits, ...
EDN

Under the Hood: Intel’s 45-nm high-k metal-gate process

On Nov. 12, Intel shipped the first 45-nanometer microprocessors using high-k metal-gate technology. Whether to underscore the significance of the event or to reinforce that his famous law remains on ...