摘要:
A high voltage and high current mesa type integrated circuit of cascaded common collector mesa emitter transistors and bleeder resistors that resists secondary breakdown. Discrete input and output emitter mesas and base enhancement regions are provided with the output emitter mesa surrounded by an output base enhancement region. Both mesas are separately shorted to the output base enhancement region.
摘要:
A composite power semiconductor is disclosed which is adapted to avoid second breakdown and therefore provide stable operation. The composite semiconductor consists of an array of parallelconnected integrated circuits constructed in a single chip, each circuit comprising an output power device, for connection between an electric power source and a load, and one or more associated low-level control amplifiers. The effect of the thermal instability called second breakdown in such an array is to channel a disproportionate amount of electric current through the output device undergoing second breakdown, thereby increasing the temperature of the affected output device, thereby increasing the current, etc. until failure occurs. In the power semiconductor disclosed, the output power device and associated low-level amplifier are thermally closely coupled so that each is at all times substantially at the temperature of the other or bears a predetermined temperature relationship therewith, and the two are interconnected in a fashion that will produce high electrical gain. There is negative thermal feedback so that a change in power dissipation with resulting temperature change in the output device causes the low-level amplifier to alter the electric current carried by the output device. For example, an increase in temperature which will tend to cause the output device to conduct a larger amount of electric current and which will also tend to cause the low-level amplifier to conduct a larger amount of current, can have the result, because of the close thermal coupling and interconnection, of maintaining the output current substantially constant.
摘要:
An active photonic device having a Darlington configuration is disclosed. The active photonic device includes a substrate with a collector layer over the substrate. The collector layer includes an inner collector region and an outer collector region that substantially surrounds the inner collector region. A base layer resides over the collector layer. The base layer includes an inner base region and an outer base region that substantially surrounds and is spaced apart from the inner base region. An emitter layer resides over the base layer. The emitter layer includes an inner emitter region that is ring-shaped and resides over and extends substantially around an outer periphery of the inner base region. The emitter layer further includes an outer emitter region that is ring-shaped and resides over and extends substantially around the outer base region. A connector structure electrically couples the inner emitter region with the outer base region.
摘要:
A switching circuit includes a wiring into which a parallel circuit of a first IGBT and a second IGBT is inserted, and a gate control circuit. The gate control circuit has a first switching element configured to control a gate potential of the first IGBT according to a potential of a second principal electrode, and a second switching element configured to control a gate potential of the second IGBT according to a potential of a fourth principal electrode. An output terminal of the control device is connected to the first switching element through a first switch and is connected to the second switching element through a second switch. The control device applies a control signal to the output terminal in a state where the first switch and the second switch are turned on when switching both of the first IGBT and the second IGBT.
摘要:
To improve current detection performance of a sense IGBT particularly in a low current region in a semiconductor device equipped with a main IGBT and the sense IGBT used for current detection of the main IGBT. At a peripheral portion located at an outermost periphery of an active region surrounded by a dummy region within a sense IGBT cell, an n+-type semiconductor region is formed over an upper surface of a well of a floating state adjacent to a trench gate electrode embedded into a trench at an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate and applied with a gate voltage.
摘要:
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer including a main IGBT cell and a sense IGBT cell connected in parallel to each other, a first resistance portion having a first resistance value formed using a gate wiring portion of the sense IGBT cell and a second resistance portion having a second resistance value higher than the first resistance value, a gate wiring electrically connected through mutually different channels to the first resistance portion and the second resistance portion, a first diode provided between the gate wiring and the first resistance portion, a second diode provided between the gate wiring and the second resistance portion in a manner oriented reversely to the first diode, an emitter electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, electrically connected to an emitter of the main IGBT cell, and a sense emitter electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, electrically connected to an emitter of the sense IGBT cell.
摘要:
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device with multiple heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) that have different emitter ballast resistances. The disclosed semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first HBT and a second HBT formed over the substrate. The first HBT includes a first collector, a first base over the first collector, a first emitter over the first base, and a first cap structure over the first emitter. The second HBT includes a second collector, a second base over the second collector, a second emitter over the second base, and a second cap structure over the second emitter. Herein, the first cap structure is different from the second cap structure, such that a first emitter ballast resistance from the first cap structure is at least 1.5 times greater than a second emitter ballast resistance from the second cap structure.
摘要:
A switching circuit switches a first IGBT and a second IGBT. A control circuit is equipped with a first switching element that is configured to be able to control a gate current of the first IGBT, a second switching element that is configured to be able to control a gate current of the second IGBT, and a third switching element that is connected between an electrode of the first IGBT and an electrode of the second IGBT. The control circuit controls a turn on timing and turn off timing.