EDN

P Channel and N Channel MOSFETs in Switched Mode Power Supply Applications

MOSFETs have been the chosen transistor technology in most Switched Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) since the mid 1980’s. MOSFETs are used as the main switching transistor as well as to improve efficiency ...
EDN

P-channel MOSFETs Approach N-Channel Performance

Using the latest generation of trench and polar power MOSFET technologies, both trench and polar P-channel power MOSFETs have been developed that retain all the features of comparable N-channel power ...
Electronic Design

Selecting n-channel MOSFETs for High-Side Hot-Swap Control

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. TYPICAL HIGH-SIDE, n-channel, hot-swap “soft-switch” systems use a charge pump to drive the gate of an external MOSFET ...
Science Daily

N-channel diamond field-effect transistor

A research team has developed an n-channel diamond MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor). The developed n-channel diamond MOSFET provides a key step toward CMOS (complementary ...
Electronic Design

P-Channel Power MOSFETs Approach N-Channel Performance

The source voltage of a P-channel device is stationary when the device operates as an HS switch. Conversely, the source voltage of an N-channel device used as an HS switch varies between the low side ...