On the formation of stationary destructive cathode-side filaments in p +-n--n+ diodes

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-44

  Baburske, Roman ^a   Heinze, Birk ^a   Niedernostheide, Franz Josef ^b   Lutz, Josef ^a   Silber, Dieter ^c  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CURRENT CROWDING; CURRENT FILAMENTS; DEPLETION LAYER; FRONT DYNAMICS; FRONT VELOCITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROPAGATION DIRECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

FILAMENTS (LAMP);

EID: 77949953049     PISSN: 10636854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPSD.2009.5157996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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