Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Ideal and Typical Power Switching Waveforms
1.2 Ideal and Typical Power Device Characteristics
1.3 Unipolar Power Devices
1.4 Bipolar Power Devices
1.5 MOS-Bipolar Power Devices
1.6 Ideal Drift Region for Unipolar Power Devices
1.7 Charge-Coupled Structures: Ideal Specific On-Resistance
1.8 Summary
Problems
References
Chapter 2 Material Properties and Transport Physics
2.1 Fundamental Properties
2.1.1 Intrinsic Carrier Concentration
2.1.2 Bandgap Narrowing
2.1.3 Built-in Potential
2.1.4 Zero-Bias Depletion Width
2.1.5 Impact Ionization Coefficients
2.1.6 Carrier Mobility
2.2 Resistivity
2.2.1 Intrinsic Resistivity
2.2.2 Extrinsic Resistivity
2.2.3 Neutron Transmutation Doping
2.3 Recombination Lifetime
Chapter 3 Breakdown Voltage
Chapter 4 Schottky Rectifiers
Chapter 5 P-i-N Rectifiers
Chapter 6 Power Mosfets
Chapter 7 Bipolar Junction Transistors
Chapter 8 Thyristors
Chapter 9 Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors
Chapter 10 Synopsis
Index