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Half bridge
Two switches in series across the DC bus with the load connected to their midpoint, so the node can be driven to either rail. It is the fundamental building block of inverters, synchronous buck converters and resonant converters.
- Also known as
- Phase leg, Half-bridge leg
- Type
- Technology
- Domain
- Power & Discretes, Power conversion topologies
Notes
Shoot-through, both switches conducting at once, is the classic way a half bridge destroys itself.
Related terms
- Full bridge
- Dead time
- Bootstrap
- Shoot-through
- Half-bridge module
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