Table of Contents

Principles of operation 1 - threshold voltage; principles of operation 2 - static characteristics; principles of operation 3: transient and high-frequency behavior; fabrication and reliability; dissipation and heatsink design; parallel and series operation; gate drive circuits; the power MOSFET as a switch; automotive applications; power supplies; motor drives; PWM inverters; high-frequency applications; linear applications; MOSFETs and bipolar transistors; packaging, testing, reliability and handling; modeling power MOSFETs; special-purpose MOSFETs; other MOS power devices.