Scaling of temperature sensors for smart power MOSFETs

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2008, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Dibra, Donald ^a   Kadow, Christoph ^a   Pfost, Martin ^a   Krischke, Norbert ^a   Lindemann, Andreas ^b   Lutz, Josef ^c   Stecher, Matthias ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Smart power MOSFET; Temperature sensor; Thermal simulation

Indexed keywords

HIGH-POWER; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; OVERLOAD CONDITION; POWER APPLICATIONS; POWER MOSFET; PROTECTION CIRCUITS; SHORT CIRCUIT; SMART POWER; SMART POWER MOSFET; THERMAL SIMULATION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 67650552874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic:20080180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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