What is Reverse recovery time?
The time during which reverse current keeps flowing after a conducting diode is reverse-biased, until the stored minority carriers are removed. It causes switching loss and noise.
Field: PN junctions and diodes
Reverse recovery time in the explanations
This interval is the reverse recovery time (trr), and the reverse recovery current causes loss and noise.
Why does a reverse current flow briefly (a reverse recovery…
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