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Any time you turn off a mosfet and the current has no-where to go - there will be a voltage spike, for an H bridge there is a path through the other fet (its diode) to the DC bus, therefore the inductance of these paths must be low and there must be plenty on C nearby on the bus (with low internal L) to soak up the current until it stops flowing. Resonant converters use this aspect for zero volt turn on of the next mosfet. If not an H-bridge or a half bridge, then clever snubbers are the only way to tame the volt spikes (and/or slower turn off times)...