2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
SUBSTRATE CURRENT FORMATION, EFFECTS, AND PROTECTION STRATEGIES
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Semiconductor companies face the demand for ‘first silicon success’ to be competitive. Substrate current effects are one major cause for redesigns in junction-isolated Smart Power technologies and they put ‘first silicon success’ at risk. Substrate currents are difficult to control because they are three-dimensional in nature and are strongly layout dependent. Moreover, protection measures show counteracting effects, and minority and majority carrier effects may occur at the same time.