Cryogenic Operation of Silicon Power Devices

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 c...

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Main Authors: Singh, Ranbir, Baliga, B. Jayant (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Power Electronics and Power Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 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 
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520 |a 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