• DocumentCode
    2367096
  • Title

    Theoretical Investigation of Silicon Limit Characteristics of IGBT

  • Author

    Nakagawa, Akio

  • Author_Institution
    Semicond. Co., Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    4-8 June 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    IGBTs have evolved rapidly as key power devices for high power application. The present paper theoretically investigates, for the first time, the silicon limit of IGBTs, and proposes a new trench gate IEGT/IGBT, realizing the theoretical limit. It is shown that almost one order of magnitude improvement in on-resistance will be expected. The author also proposes, for the first time, a theory to achieve extremely large short-circuit withstanding capability
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; insulated gate bipolar transistors; silicon; IGBT device; Si; magnitude improvement; on-resistance; short circuit withstanding capability; silicon limit characteristics; trench gate; Charge carrier density; Charge carrier processes; Current density; Electrons; Equations; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Iron; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Semiconductor Devices and IC's, 2006. ISPSD 2006. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Naples
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9714-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISPSD.2006.1666057
  • Filename
    1666057