SE424485B - Tyristor - Google Patents

Tyristor

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Publication number
SE424485B
SE424485B SE7704360A SE7704360A SE424485B SE 424485 B SE424485 B SE 424485B SE 7704360 A SE7704360 A SE 7704360A SE 7704360 A SE7704360 A SE 7704360A SE 424485 B SE424485 B SE 424485B
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thyristor
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SE7704360A
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Swedish (sv)
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SE7704360L (sv
Inventor
A P Ferro
V A K Temple
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Gen Electric
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Publication of SE7704360L publication Critical patent/SE7704360L/
Publication of SE424485B publication Critical patent/SE424485B/xx

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor 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
    • H01L29/66—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68—Types 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
    • H01L29/70—Bipolar devices
    • H01L29/74—Thyristor-type devices, e.g. having four-zone regenerative action
    • H01L29/7428—Thyristor-type devices, e.g. having four-zone regenerative action having an amplifying gate structure, e.g. cascade (Darlington) configuration
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor 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
    • H01L29/02—Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/06—Semiconductor 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
    • H01L29/0657—Semiconductor 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 characterised by the shape of the body
    • H01L29/0661—Semiconductor 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 characterised by the shape of the body specially adapted for altering the breakdown voltage by removing semiconductor material at, or in the neighbourhood of, a reverse biased junction, e.g. by bevelling, moat etching, depletion etching
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor 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
    • H01L29/66—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68—Types 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
    • H01L29/70—Bipolar devices
    • H01L29/74—Thyristor-type devices, e.g. having four-zone regenerative action
    • H01L29/7424—Thyristor-type devices, e.g. having four-zone regenerative action having a built-in localised breakdown/breakover region, e.g. self-protected against destructive spontaneous, e.g. voltage breakover, firing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L31/00—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L31/08—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof in which radiation controls flow of current through the device, e.g. photoresistors
    • H01L31/10—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof in which radiation controls flow of current through the device, e.g. photoresistors characterised by potential barriers, e.g. phototransistors
    • H01L31/101—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation
    • H01L31/111—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation characterised by at least three potential barriers, e.g. photothyristors
    • H01L31/1113—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation characterised by at least three potential barriers, e.g. photothyristors the device being a photothyristor

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Ceramic Engineering (AREA)
  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • Thyristors (AREA)
SE7704360A 1976-04-19 1977-04-15 Tyristor SE424485B (sv)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US05/677,876 US4012761A (en) 1976-04-19 1976-04-19 Self-protected semiconductor device

Publications (2)

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SE7704360L SE7704360L (sv) 1977-10-20
SE424485B true SE424485B (sv) 1982-07-19

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SE7704360A SE424485B (sv) 1976-04-19 1977-04-15 Tyristor

Country Status (7)

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US (1) US4012761A (de)
JP (1) JPS52138880A (de)
CA (1) CA1089111A (de)
DE (1) DE2716874C2 (de)
FR (1) FR2349216A1 (de)
GB (1) GB1515836A (de)
SE (1) SE424485B (de)

Families Citing this family (19)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2538549C2 (de) * 1975-08-29 1985-06-13 Siemens AG, 1000 Berlin und 8000 München Mit Licht steuerbarer Thyristor
US4122480A (en) * 1975-11-05 1978-10-24 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.M.B.H. Light fired thyristor with faulty firing protection
JPS6040190B2 (ja) * 1976-07-21 1985-09-10 日本インタ−ナシヨナル整流器株式会社 半導体制御整流素子
US4053922A (en) * 1976-05-19 1977-10-11 General Electric Company Light triggered thyristor having controlled turn on delay
DE2907732A1 (de) * 1979-02-28 1980-09-04 Siemens Ag Thyristor
US4812892A (en) * 1978-03-30 1989-03-14 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Light controllable thyristors
CH631832A5 (de) * 1978-06-15 1982-08-31 Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie Leistungsthyristor und verfahren zu seiner herstellung.
US4314266A (en) * 1978-07-20 1982-02-02 Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. Thyristor with voltage breakover current control separated from main emitter by current limit region
JPS6016107B2 (ja) * 1978-08-23 1985-04-23 株式会社日立製作所 自己保護型半導体制御整流装置
US4352118A (en) * 1979-03-02 1982-09-28 Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. Thyristor with segmented turn-on line for directing turn-on current
US4305084A (en) * 1979-11-16 1981-12-08 General Electric Company Semiconductor switching device capable of turn-on only at low applied voltages using self pinch-off means
DE3268107D1 (en) * 1981-06-30 1986-02-06 Toshiba Kk Thyristor
US4633282A (en) * 1982-10-04 1986-12-30 Rockwell International Corporation Metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor with a partial p-type drain
IE840248L (en) * 1983-02-18 1984-08-18 Westinghouse Electric Corp Light activated power transistor
US4908687A (en) * 1984-06-29 1990-03-13 General Electric Company Controlled turn-on thyristor
EP0190162B1 (de) * 1984-06-29 1990-11-07 General Electric Company Gesteuerter einschaltbarer thyristor
DE3435548A1 (de) * 1984-09-27 1986-04-03 Siemens AG, 1000 Berlin und 8000 München Thyristor mit hoher innerer zuendverstaerkung
EP0320738A3 (de) * 1987-12-17 1991-02-06 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Überkopfzündfester Thyristor
DE19640311B4 (de) * 1996-09-30 2005-12-29 Eupec Gmbh & Co. Kg Halbleiterbauelement mit Lateralwiderstand und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung

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GB1112301A (en) * 1964-07-27 1968-05-01 Gen Electric Controlled rectifier with improved turn-on and turn-off characteristics
GB1174899A (en) * 1966-04-15 1969-12-17 Westinghouse Brake & Signal Improvements relating to Controllable Rectifier Devices
SE311701B (de) * 1966-07-07 1969-06-23 Asea Ab
SE335389B (de) * 1966-10-25 1971-05-24 Asea Ab
US3440501A (en) * 1967-02-02 1969-04-22 Gen Electric Double-triggering semiconductor controlled rectifier
US3622845A (en) * 1969-05-01 1971-11-23 Gen Electric Scr with amplified emitter gate
BE758745A (fr) * 1969-11-10 1971-05-10 Westinghouse Electric Corp Perfectionnements aux ou en rapport avec les dispositifs semiconducteurs
JPS4722429U (de) * 1971-03-30 1972-11-13
DE2356906A1 (de) * 1973-11-14 1975-05-22 Siemens Ag Thyristor
US3893153A (en) * 1974-01-10 1975-07-01 Westinghouse Electric Corp Light activated thyristor with high di/dt capability
DE2407696C3 (de) * 1974-02-18 1979-02-01 Siemens Ag, 1000 Berlin Und 8000 Muenchen Thyristor

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Publication number Publication date
FR2349216B1 (de) 1983-06-10
GB1515836A (en) 1978-06-28
JPS52138880A (en) 1977-11-19
SE7704360L (sv) 1977-10-20
FR2349216A1 (fr) 1977-11-18
DE2716874C2 (de) 1983-02-03
CA1089111A (en) 1980-11-04
JPS5641180B2 (de) 1981-09-26
DE2716874A1 (de) 1977-10-27
US4012761A (en) 1977-03-15

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