• DocumentCode
    931779
  • Title

    Second breakdown: Hot spots or hot cylinders

  • Author

    Krishna, Surinder ; Gray, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    General Electric Company, Schenectady, N.Y.
  • Volume
    62
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1974
  • Firstpage
    1182
  • Lastpage
    1183
  • Abstract
    An extension of the lateral thermal instability effects that give rise to second breakdown in transistors is presented. It is seen that regions where intrinsic ionization occurs are not localized "spots" but are present in the center of the emitter and along its entire length, giving rise to "hot cylinders."
  • Keywords
    Admittance; Artificial intelligence; Circuits; Electric breakdown; Equations; Frequency; Power system transients; Rotors; Sparse matrices; Synchronous machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1974.9589
  • Filename
    1451519