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Advanced Low-Voltage Power MOSFET Technology for Power Supply in Package Applications
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics IEEE Trans. Power Electron. Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 28(9):4202-4215 Sep, 2013
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Nuclear Engineering
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Power MOSFET
Electrodes
Logic gates
Power supplies
Inductance
Low voltage
Asymmetric gate resistor
gate voltage pull-down circuit
integration
low-voltage power MOSFET
power loss
source-down structure power MOSFET
stacked-die package
synchronous buck converters
Language
ISSN
0885-8993
1941-0107
Abstract
In this paper, a high-current dc–dc power supply in package is reported with an emphasis on the design aspects of the low- and high-side power MOSFETs embedded in the power module. A new NexFET structure with its source electrode on the bottom side of the die (source down) is designed to enable an innovative stacked-die PSiP technology with significantly reduced parasitic inductance and package footprint. A gate voltage pull-down circuitry monolithically integrated in the low-side NexFET is introduced to effectively prevent shoot-through faults even when a very low gate threshold voltage is used to reduce conduction and body diode reverse-recovery-related power losses. In addition, an asymmetric gate resistor circuitry is monolithically integrated in the high-side NexFET to minimize voltage ringing at the switch node. With all these novel device technology improvements, the new power supply in package module delivers a significant improvement in efficiency and offers an excellent solution for future high-frequency, high-current-density dc–dc converters.