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 https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBhYF.jpg i found this image that shows the parasitic BJT and the less commonly used parasitic JFET! (there's really no way i can think of to actually make use of that jfet though)
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@zetasyanthis JFETs are neat, they're just a diode that you're using as a transistor basically
single p-n junction, current can flow from one side of the n to the other but if you reverse-bias the junction enough the depletion region stops current flow
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