Title :
Protection against junction burnout by current limiting
Author_Institution :
TRW Systems Group, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Abstract :
Provides design curves which determine optimum resistor or inductor values for surge protection, provided that an upper bound on surge duration and circuit supply voltages are known. The resistor or inductor values are optimized in the sense that maximum theoretical energy transfers to semiconductor junctions are equated to predetermined burnout thresholds.
Keywords :
bipolar transistors; limiters; overcurrent protection; semiconductor diodes; burnout thresholds; circuit supply voltages; current limiting; junction burnout protection; surge duration; surge protection;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1974.6499272
