US2663831A - Selenium dry-disk rectifier - Google Patents

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US2663831A
US2663831A US210288A US21028851A US2663831A US 2663831 A US2663831 A US 2663831A US 210288 A US210288 A US 210288A US 21028851 A US21028851 A US 21028851A US 2663831 A US2663831 A US 2663831A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L21/00—Processes or apparatus adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof
    • H01L21/02—Manufacture or treatment of semiconductor devices or of parts thereof
    • H01L21/04—Manufacture 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
    • H01L21/06—Manufacture 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 selenium or tellurium in uncombined form other than as impurities in semiconductor bodies of other materials
    • H01L21/10—Preliminary treatment of the selenium or tellurium, its application to the foundation plate, or the subsequent treatment of the combination

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  • Selenium dry-disc rectifiers are basically built up in a way that on a base plate of some suitable material such as straight or nickel-plated iron, light metal, etc., there is applied a thin selenium coating on which a metallic back (counter) electrode of suitable composition is deposited.
  • Rectifier action is restricted to a thin layer which forms at the surface of the selenium facing the back electrode.
  • the overall selenium coating must have a certain minimum thickness to avoid short-circuits between the base plate and the back electrode.
  • the selenium layer proper is not identical however with the just mentioned thin rectifying layer forming at the selenium surface towards the back electrode. Strictly speaking, whatever selenium is not used in forming this barrier layer is superfluous, as it but causes a relatively high dropping resistance in the rectifying circuit so from the loss angle this portion of the rectifier should be made with a resistance as low as possible.
  • a selenium rectifier comprising a base plate, a layer on said base plate consisting of selenium containing admixtures of a halogen and aluminum oxide in which the aluminum oxide is present in said layer up to milligram-percent of the selenium, and a counter-electrode on said layer.

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US2888620A (en) * 1956-04-30 1959-05-26 Westinghouse Air Brake Co High resistance semiconductor cells

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US2137316A (en) * 1935-02-06 1938-11-22 Philips Nv Electrode system and method of making same
US2189576A (en) * 1935-06-22 1940-02-06 Gen Electric Dry plate rectifier and method of producing same
US2453763A (en) * 1945-07-07 1948-11-16 Ruben Samuel Selenium rectifier and process for making same

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US2137316A (en) * 1935-02-06 1938-11-22 Philips Nv Electrode system and method of making same
US2189576A (en) * 1935-06-22 1940-02-06 Gen Electric Dry plate rectifier and method of producing same
US2453763A (en) * 1945-07-07 1948-11-16 Ruben Samuel Selenium rectifier and process for making same

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US2888620A (en) * 1956-04-30 1959-05-26 Westinghouse Air Brake Co High resistance semiconductor cells

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