DC to DC Synchronous Converter Design Abdus Sattar, IXYS Corporation

Modern power electronics products require small size and lighter weight of power electronics parts. Filter inductor and capacitor sizes must be small. With the small filter, the switching semiconductor devices must have small switching loss. And heat sink also must be reduced. For the safe operation with the small heat sink, the switching semiconductor devices must have small conduction loss. IXYS developed new generation of Trench MOSFET (Trench2TM), which has small gate charge and low on-resistance.
The MOSFET will be well suited for high power applications of synchronous DC to DC converters used in various systems. The MOSFET is rugged and has avalanche energy capability.