WARP2 IGBTs are made with IR's thin wafer technology, which ensures shorter minority carrier depletion time and hence faster turn-off. In addition, negligible turn-off tail current and low turn-off switching loss, or EOFF, enables designers to achieve higher operating frequencies.

The improvement in switching performance, combined with positive thermal coefficient characteristics and the lower gate turn-on charge, enables higher current density. They exhibit excellent current sharing properties like power MOSFETs when operated in parallel. Unlike power MOSFETs, the conduction losses of these IGBTs remain essentially flat.

The new SMPS NPT IGBTs handle as much as 50 A in the TO-247 package, which is 85% more current capacity compared to IR's 600 V MOSFET in the same package, and up to 20 A in TO-220 package, or 18% more current capacity compared to IR's 600 V MOSFET in a TO-220 package.

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