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This paper proposes an active gate drive method based on a feedforward control for turn-on condition in IGBTs. The transient improvement with minimum undesirable effect on the efficiency is the main objective of this research. The new gate driver (GD) improves the trade-off between switching loss and device stress at the turn-on condition, without getting feedback from the output. The operation principle...