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GB1052447A
GB1052447A GB1052447DA GB1052447A GB 1052447 A GB1052447 A GB 1052447A GB 1052447D A GB1052447D A GB 1052447DA GB 1052447 A GB1052447 A GB 1052447A
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    • H01L29/66Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/70Bipolar devices
    • H01L29/74Thyristor-type devices, e.g. having four-zone regenerative action
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    • H01L21/04Manufacture or treatment of semiconductor devices or of parts thereof the devices having potential barriers, e.g. a PN junction, depletion layer or carrier concentration layer
    • H01L21/18Manufacture or treatment of semiconductor devices or of parts thereof the devices having potential barriers, e.g. a PN junction, depletion layer or carrier concentration layer the devices having semiconductor bodies comprising elements of Group IV of the Periodic Table or AIIIBV compounds with or without impurities, e.g. doping materials
    • H01L21/22Diffusion of impurity materials, e.g. doping materials, electrode materials, into or out of a semiconductor body, or between semiconductor regions; Interactions between two or more impurities; Redistribution of impurities
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    • H01L21/18Manufacture or treatment of semiconductor devices or of parts thereof the devices having potential barriers, e.g. a PN junction, depletion layer or carrier concentration layer the devices having semiconductor bodies comprising elements of Group IV of the Periodic Table or AIIIBV compounds with or without impurities, e.g. doping materials
    • H01L21/24Alloying of impurity materials, e.g. doping materials, electrode materials, with a semiconductor body
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    • H01L27/02Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers
    • H01L27/04Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body
    • H01L27/08Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body including only semiconductor components of a single kind
    • H01L27/082Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body including only semiconductor components of a single kind including bipolar components only
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    • H01L29/02Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/06Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions
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    • H01L29/06Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions
    • H01L29/10Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions with semiconductor regions connected to an electrode not carrying current to be rectified, amplified or switched and such electrode being part of a semiconductor device which comprises three or more electrodes
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    • H01L29/00Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/86Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable only by variation of the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to one or more of the electrodes carrying the current to be rectified, amplified, oscillated or switched

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GB1052447D 1962-09-15 Active GB1052447A (xx)

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DE1962S0081478 DE1214790C2 (de) 1962-09-15 1962-09-15 Leistungsgleichrichter mit einkristallinem Halbleiterkoerper und vier Schichten abwechselnden Leitfaehigkeitstyps
FR18571A FR88265E (fr) 1962-09-15 1965-05-26 Redresseur pnpn pour courants forts et son procédé de fabrication

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CH (1) CH416839A (xx)
DE (1) DE1214790C2 (xx)
FR (1) FR88265E (xx)
GB (1) GB1052447A (xx)

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US4081821A (en) * 1974-12-23 1978-03-28 Bbc Brown Boveri & Company Limited Bistable semiconductor component for high frequencies having four zones of alternating opposed types of conductivity

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DE1614410B2 (de) * 1967-01-25 1973-12-13 Siemens Ag, 1000 Berlin U. 8000 Muenchen Halbleiterbauelement
US3628107A (en) * 1969-05-05 1971-12-14 Gen Electric Passivated semiconductor device with peripheral protective junction
GB1410726A (en) * 1972-01-24 1975-10-22 Licentia Gmbh Thyristor with increased switching on an switching through speed
DE2333429C3 (de) * 1973-06-30 1984-01-05 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Thyristor und Verfahren zu seiner Herstellung
JPS5230389A (en) * 1975-09-03 1977-03-08 Hitachi Ltd Thyristor
US4112458A (en) * 1976-01-26 1978-09-05 Cutler-Hammer, Inc. Silicon thyristor sensitive to low temperature with thermal switching characteristics at temperatures less than 50° C
JPS594075A (ja) * 1982-06-30 1984-01-10 Toshiba Corp サイリスタ
GB2359415A (en) * 2000-02-21 2001-08-22 Westcode Semiconductors Ltd Profiling of semiconductor wafer to prevent edge breakdown

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US4081821A (en) * 1974-12-23 1978-03-28 Bbc Brown Boveri & Company Limited Bistable semiconductor component for high frequencies having four zones of alternating opposed types of conductivity

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US3349299A (en) 1967-10-24
CH416839A (de) 1966-07-15
DE1214790C2 (de) 1973-08-30
FR88265E (fr) 1967-01-06

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