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Cryogenic Operation of Silicon Power Devices

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The advent of low temperature superconductors in the early 1960's converted what had been a laboratory curiosity with very limited possibilities to a prac tical means of fabricating electrical components and devices with lossless con ductors. Using liquid helium as a coolant, the successful construction and operation of high field strength magnet systems, alternators, motors and trans mission lines was announced. These developments ushered in the era of what may be termed cryogenic power engineering and a decade later successful oper ating systems could be found such as the 5 T saddle magnet designed and built in the United States by the Argonne National Laboratory and installed on an experimental power generating facility at the High Temperature Institute in Moscow, Russia. The field of digital computers provided an incentive of a quite different kind to operate at cryogenic temperatures. In this case, the objective was to ob tain higher switching speeds than are possible at ambient temperatures with the critical issue being the operating characteristics of semiconductor switches under cryogenic conditions. By 1980, cryogenic electronics was established as another branch of electric engineering.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Advent of Power Cryoelectronics.- 1.2 Cryogenic Power Applications.- 1.3 Advantages of using semiconductor devices at low temperatures.- 1.4 Inferences and Objectives.- 2. Temperature Dependence of Silicon Properties.- 2.1 Semiconductor statistics and carrier Freezeout.- 2.2 Energy bandgap of Silicon.- 2.3 Intrinsic Carrier Concentration.- 2.4 Carrier Mobility.- 2.5 Carrier Lifetime.- 2.6 Breakdown Phenomenon.- 3. Schottky Barrier Diodes.- 3.1 Device Operation.- 3.2 Experimental Results.- 3.3 Optimization of Schottky Barrier Diodes for low temperature operation.- 3.4 Conclusions.- 4. P-I-N Diode.- 4.1 Basic Structure.- 4.2 Experimental Results.- 4.3 Analytical Modeling.- 4.4 Conclusions.- 5. Power Bipolar Transistors.- 5.1 Basic Operation.- 5.2 Experimental Results.- 5.3 Emitter Current Crowding.- 5.4 Transistor Optimization.- 5.5 Conclusions.- 6. Power Mosfets.- 6.1 Device Operation.- 6.2 Carrier freezeout in silicon.- 6.3 Experimental Results.- 6.4 Discussion.- 6.5 Conclusion.- 7. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors.- 7.1 Device operation.- 7.2 Experimental results.- 7.3 Conclusion.- 8. Power Junction Field Effect Transistors.- 8.1 Basic Operation.- 8.2 Forward Blocking.- 8.3 Forward Conduction.- 8.4 Conclusions.- 9. Asymmetric Field Controlled Thyristors.- 9.1 Basic Operation.- 9.2 Static Characteristics.- 9.3 Switching Characteristics.- 9.4 Trade-Off curve and Conclusions.- 10. Thyristors.- 10.1 Basic Operation.- 10.2 Static Characteristics.- 10.3 Switching Characteristics.- 10.4 Conclusions.- 11. Synopsis.- 11.1 Design considerations for power devices at 77K.- 11.2 Performance of power devices at 77K.- 11.3 Power devices for cryogenic applications.- References.

Summary

A comprehensive resource of power device electrical characteristics in a cryogenic environment. It presents the different characteristics of power devices operated below -55 C (220K). It provides data and physics based models for power devices operated at temperatures down to 77K for the first time within a single source.

Product details

Authors B Jayant Baliga, B. J. Baliga, B. Jayant Baliga, Ranbir Singh
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 24.02.2011
 
EAN 9780792381570
ISBN 978-0-7923-8157-0
No. of pages 148
Dimensions 169 mm x 231 mm x 14 mm
Weight 406 g
Illustrations XVIII, 148 p.
Series Power Electronics and Power Systems
Power Electronics and Power Sy
Power Electronics and Power Systems
Power Electronics and Power Sy
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering

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