A survey of circuit configurations and experimental verification of a resonant gate drive circuit

In this paper, a survey of circuit configurations and experimental verification of resonant gate drive circuit are presented. Switching frequency of the power converter is increased. Therefore, power saving is required for driving power semiconductors in order to obtain the high power density. This paper looks back the development history of the resonant gate drive circuit from IEEE publications in 1987 to 2015. Then, the research elements for corresponding to the high-voltage and high-speed switching by next-generation power semiconductors has been considered by experiments.