Design considerations and experimental analysis of high-voltage SiC Schottky barrier rectifiers

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1595-1604

  Schoen, Kipp Jay ^a   Woodall, Jerry M ^a   Cooper, James A ^a   Melloch, Michael R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High voltage; Reverse leakage current; Schottky barrier rectifiers; Silicon carbide

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; NICKEL; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON CARBIDE; TITANIUM;

HIGH VOLTAGE;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 0032121583     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.701494     Document Type: Article

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