I mean, the actual current handling element is basically a huge BJT, yeah? Should do fine if you could control it in a linear fashion (which admittedly, is the opposite of what IGBTs do). I think that'd just be a big BJT in the end? :P
@zetasyanthis it's actually just a MOSFET that's designed to take advantage of its parasitic BJT! So the MOSFET conduction channel also still exists in parallel to the BJT i believe (though it's rather high resistance, as you want most of the current going through the BJT structure)
an interesting fact of this is that N-channel devices actually have a PNP parasitic transistor structure, and P-channel devices NPN
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Interesting... I didn't actually know that MOSFETs had a parasitic BJT. I guess the classes I took stopped right before that level. :P
@zetasyanthis I think some types of MOSFET might not have the parasitic BJT, but it's not generally worth using as, unless designed otherwise as in an IGBT, it's near impossible to actually turn on that BJT
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