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Power Semiconductor Devices—Key Components for Efficient Electrical Energy Conversion Systems Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

8. Thyristors

verfasst von : Josef Lutz, Heinrich Schlangenotto, Uwe Scheuermann, Rik De Doncker

Erschienen in: Semiconductor Power Devices

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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The thyristor was the dominating switching device in power electronics for a long time. It was described already in 1956 [Mol56] and introduced to the market in the early 60s [Gen64]. The acronym SCR (Silicon Controlled Rectifier) was primarily used for a thyristor in early publications and is still occasionally in use today. In its basic structure, a thyristor can be fabricated without very fine structures and with low-cost photolithography equipment. The thyristor is still widely used in applications with low switching frequencies, such as controlled input rectifiers which are applied at the grid frequency of 50 or 60 Hz. A further actual application field of the thyristor is the power range that cannot be reached with other power devices - the range of very high blocking voltages and very high currents. For high voltage DC power transmission, thyristors with 8 kV blocking voltage and more than 5.6 kA rated current have been introduced in 2008 as a single device in the size of a 6-inch wafer [Prz09]. …

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Already for diodes, the term “punch-through” was used, however in a different meaning of the word. When in diodes the space-charge region extends through the entire n−-layer and penetrates into an n+-layer, the blocking capability can further increase. See Sect. 5.​3.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Thyristors
verfasst von
Josef Lutz
Heinrich Schlangenotto
Uwe Scheuermann
Rik De Doncker
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Semiconductor Power Devices

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-70916-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-70917-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70917-8_8

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