摘要:
A switching control circuit includes a first field controlled thyristor having a gate and a cathode between which a backward bias voltage source and a second field controlled thyristor are connected in series. Conduction of the second field controlled thyristor is controlled by controlling a voltage applied across the gate and the cathode, thereby to control conduction of the first field controlled thyristor. A large load current can be positively and safely turned on and off by a relatively small control current or voltage.
摘要:
A field controlled thyristor is disclosed which comprises a first emitter region exposed to one main surface of a semiconductor substrate and having a first conductivity type, a second emitter region exposed to the other main surface of the substrate and having a second conductivity type, a base region connecting the first and the second emitter region, and a gate region provided in the base region. The gate region consists of a slab-like first portion disposed parallel to both the emitter and a second portion connecting the first slab-like portion with one of the main surfaces of the semiconductor substrate. The impurity concentration of the base region is higher in the portion of the base region nearer to the emitter region having the same conductivity type as that of the base region than in the portion of the base region nearer to the emitter region having the opposite conductivity type to that of the base region. The field controlled thyristor has a high forward blocking voltage gain (anode-cathode voltage/gate bias voltage), a large current rating, and a high switching power capability and its switching time is very short.
摘要:
A semiconductor photodetector comprising a first semiconductor layer having N-type conductivity; a second semiconductor layer having N-type conductivity, disposed in the vicinity of the first semiconductor layer and having a resistivity higher than that of the first semiconductor layer; a third region having P-type conductivity, disposed in the vicinity of the second semiconductor layer and having a thickness smaller than that of the second semiconductor layer; a first main electrode kept in ohmic contact with the first semiconductor layer; and a second main electrode kept in ohmic contact with a portion of the third region, the surface of the third region serving as a light receiving surface.
摘要:
A light-activated semiconductor-controlled rectifier device comprising four layers of PNPN is disclosed in which a part of the edges of the PN junction formed between the intermediate P-type layer and the intermediate N-type layer is exposed on the same side on which the outer P-type layer is exposed, so that a photo-trigger signal is radiated on that exposed part of the edges of the PN junction.
摘要:
The whole body of a semiconductor device with its pn junction exposed ends covered by insulating glass is subjected to the exposure to radiation having an energy of higher than 0.5 MeV in terms of the reduced energy of electron beams while the semiconductor device is maintained at temperatures higher than 300.degree. C., and preferably higher than 350.degree. C. As a result, the life time of the minority carriers in the semiconductor device can be shortened without increasing the leakage current in the reverse direction.
摘要:
A photo-coupled semiconductor device comprising a light-emitting semiconductor element, a light-receiving semiconductor element, and an insulation base supporting these two semiconductor elements. The insulation base has a pair of parallel surfaces and provides an optical path extending between the parallel surfaces for photo-coupling the semiconductor elements. Each of the semiconductor elements has at least two rigid electrodes extending in parallel to the parallel surfaces of the insulation base, and the electrodes are electrically and mechanically connected at one of their parallel surfaces by solder to conductive interconnection layers exposed at predetermined positions of one of the parallel surfaces of the insulation base. The device can satisfy both the desired increase in the efficiency of photo-coupling and the desired improvement in the massproductivity.
摘要:
A bidirectional photothyristor device comprises a semiconductive substrate including an NPNPN quintuple layer in which projections of both the outer layers Ns in the stacking direction are not overlapped so as to define two quadruple layer regions each having either one of the outer layers Ns as an end layer, a pair of main electrodes connecting the two quadruple layer regions in parallel relationship, a recess formed between the two quadruple layer regions within the semiconductive substrate and to which two intermediate P-N junctions are exposed, and means for applying a light trigger signal to the recess.
摘要:
A semiconductor device having a high blocking voltage, comprises a pair of principal surfaces opposite to each other, a circular groove cut in the peripheral portion of one of the principal surfaces and a PN junction formed along the surface of the groove and the one of the principal surfaces, wherein the region on the side of the PN junction near the one of the principal surfaces is of high impurity concentration, the outer edge of the PN junction appears in the bevel surface connecting the pair of principal surfaces, and the edge of the PN junction intersects the bevel surface in such a manner that the angle therebetween in the region of high impurity concentration is obtuse.
摘要:
A semiconductor device has one layer of a diode formed by diffusion of an impurity from a polycrystalline layer portion formed on a region in which the layer is to be formed. The polycrystalline layer portion is composed of two layers, the resistivity of the polycrystalline layer closer to the above-mentioned one layer of the diode being higher than that of the other polycrystalline layer.
摘要:
A semiconductor substrate having a single crystal semiconductor layer of one conductivity type exposed to the surface thereof is maintained at a temperature lower than the temperature at which the semiconductors is precipitated from the gas phase. In this state, a gas of a starting material of a semiconductor, a gas containing impurities capable of forming a semiconductor of the other conductivity type and a carrier gas therefore are fed onto the semiconductor substrate. Then, the semiconductor substrate is heated to form an amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer of the other conductivity type on the semiconductor substrate. Simultaneously, the impurities of the other conductivity type are diffused from the amorphous or polycrystal semiconductor layer into the substrate which has a single crystal semiconductor layer of one conductivity type, to form a single crystal semiconductor layer having a p-n junction just below the amorphous or polycrystal semiconductor layer between the amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer and the single crystal semiconductor layer of one conductivity type.In a p-n junction to be formed according to this process, the distribution of the concentration of impurities can be controlled precisely, and the step-like distribution of the concentration of impurities can be attained very well.