Influence of inhomogeneous current distribution on the thermal SOA of integrated DMOS transistors

IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD)

Volumn 16, Issue , 2004, Pages 409-412

  Denison, Marie ^a   Pfost, Martin ^a   Pieper, Klaus Willi ^a   Märkl, Stefan ^b   Metzner, Dieter ^a   Stecher, Matthias ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSISTORS;

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATIONS; POWER DENSITY;

MOS DEVICES;

EID: 4944247332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/wct.2004.240293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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