Hi Nima,

Attached is a presentation (named "S13 Seminar ...") by Infineon that has very good discussions on designing IGBT and SiC MOSFET gate drivers.

I have also attached some other references about some gate driver circuitry and design considerations .

Many researchers make their own gate drivers. But seems that there are also some off the shelf gate driver options that you can incorporate into your design. For example, these are some options from CREE for driving their SiC MOSFETs (there should be more if you look for them):

https://americas.rsdelivers.com/product/wolfspeed/cgd15hb62p1/2-chan-mosfet-gate-driver-pcb-module-15v/9229601?cm_mmc=US-PLA-DS3A-_-google-_-PLA_US_EN_Semiconductors-_-Semiconductor_Development_Kits%7CPower_Management_Development_Kits-_-PRODUCT_GROUP&matchtype=&pla-760723216703&gclid=CjwKCAjw6vvoBRBtEiwAZq-T1fjPdX_3-MgIApa6ijsi4EfVJckIyoxx4I7bJYxbeEu_K_eoR3FLGhoCUL4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Wolfspeed-Cree/CRD-001?qs=iilAu%2FqtjqMmnkJdYgEeig%3D%3D&gclid=CjwKCAjw6vvoBRBtEiwAZq-T1dEdjIbr5tQcIQtdd7py-TZcUARxCu8EeT1J5Jxd0wSAtnJaIblohxoCsk4QAvD_BwE

Generally, you should be able to use them to drive any power IGBTs and MOSFETs (except that you need to check that their gating voltage levels match the switch you want to switch). Since they have been designed for driving SiC MOSFETs, they should be able to easily handle slower devices (such as IGBTs and Si MOSFTs) that experience much less dv/dt and di/dt than SiC switches. But if you'd like to have better features (such as better common-mode rejection features) you may have to design your own.

Hope that helps.

Good Luck!

Thank you very much for your complete answer.

Dear Nima,

There is suitable integrated circuits gate drivers for most of the available semicondcutor switches either power MOSFET or IGBT.

You need only to search for the the gate drivers of power semicondcutor switches.

One of the good data sheet can be found in the link: Fundamentals of MOSFET and IGBT Gate Driver Circuits (Replaces SLUP169) (Rev. A)

Best wishes

Thank you very much Prof. Zekry