600 V, 11 A N-channel power switch in TO-220
It is built on a planar stripe technology that balances on-resistance and switching losses for hard-switching topologies. The through-hole TO-220 package suits conventional heatsink mounting in power supplies, lighting ballasts, and industrial converters where board-level thermal management is straightforward.
On-resistance and gate charge — the switching loss trade-off
This is the conduction loss figure a designer uses to size the heatsink — at 11 A the I²R loss reaches roughly 46 W, leaving about 64 W of the 110 W rated dissipation for switching losses. Total gate charge is 17 nC at 10 V, a moderate value that keeps gate-driver current below 20 mA at 100 kHz switching frequency. Input capacitance is 590 pF at 100 V drain-source bias, which together with the gate charge defines the switching energy. The low capacitance relative to the 600 V rating means the device can be driven with a standard bootstrap gate-driver IC without excessive cross-conduction during the Miller plateau.
Temperature range and industrial qualification
This qualifies the STP15N60M2-EP for outdoor telecom rectifiers, solar inverters, and motor drives where ambient temperatures can exceed 70°C.
No official second-source or pin-compatible cross-reference is published by STMicroelectronics for this specific MDmesh M2-EP variant.