Electronic – Calculating the switching loss IRF44n

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I'm trying to get rid of this heat problem , I know that I have to use heat sinks according
to it's specification , but the problem here is there's no space for that heat sink.
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So I do have to need a method to calculate and get a idea about it's switching loss
to compare these two MOSFETS to select the better one. The design that I speak is a
push-pull topology and it does drain 20A peak current , switching frequency is 50KHz and
how could I calculate the power dissipation due to the switching losses?

I have compared these two MOSFETS,
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Is that calculating the operating point from that graph is a good idea here?
Regarding the 20A in mind so there will be 1V between Drain and the source. So
which means approximately 20W as heat on it's peak. Regarding the Ipeak reaches
linearly so approximate heat dissparation is around 10W per two MOSFETS, so 5W per
a one. So do I still need a heat sink there?

What other options that I should concern,

  1. Voltage ringing.

  2. Hi voltages causing by leakage flux. (use a clamp drive)

  3. Reverse and forward switching delays. (use a gate drive)

5W is still too hot for a design regarding without heat sink. Could somebdoy suggest
any other MOSFET which does the job with less heat. Ron is very small device.

EDIT: My supply voltage is 24V and I am not using a gate drive here. I'm using 5V TTL
output to drive these two MOSFETS.

Best Answer

Driving with TTL is a bad idea. At 4D drive the IRFZ44 is only guaranteeing to pass 250 micro amps. You need to follow the guidelines in the spec: -

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The spec says it has a test to check rise times and fall times - they use a 10V pulse with an output impedance of 12 ohms.

You cannot expect to get anywhere near this performance from TTL at 4 or 5V. The gate input capacitance is 1.5nF and this needs something like a 1 or 2A drive (off the top of my head) to get the device to switch on and off at the rate you are likely wanting.

EDIT to include drive current into the gate.

It's easiest to start off with Q = CV then differentiating we get \$\dfrac{dQ}{dT} = C\dfrac{dV}{dT}\$ where

\$\dfrac{dQ}{dt}\$ equals charging current into the gate capacitor of 1.5nF.

The voltage on the gate needs to change about 10V in 20 ns hence \$\dfrac{dV}{dt}\$ = 500,000,000.

Therefore charging current (to be supplied by gate drive) is 1.5 \$\times 10^{-9} \times 500,000,000 = 0.75A\$. This means your driver ought to be able to deliver 1 or 2A as previously mentioned.