• DocumentCode
    2238914
  • Title

    A newly structured high voltage diode highlighting oscillation free function in recovery process

  • Author

    Satoh, K. ; Morishita, K. ; Yamaguchi, Y. ; Hirano, Naoki ; Iwamoto, H. ; Kawakami, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Power Device Div., Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Japan
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    249
  • Lastpage
    252
  • Abstract
    At present, switching devices with high performance such as GCT (Gate Commutated Turn-off) thyristor and IGBT which had higher operation voltage than about 4.5 kV have been realized. However, as a freewheeling diode which should realize the suitable recovery performance to the turn-on performance of those switching devices is not successful, they were restricted in the turn-on operation for inverter systems. Therefore, advanced diodes with high operation voltage and soft recovery performance are desired in order to improve the system performance
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; p-i-n diodes; power semiconductor diodes; 4.5 kV; high voltage diode; operation voltage; oscillation free function; recovery process; soft recovery performance; turn-on operation; Anodes; Circuits; Cities and towns; Diodes; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Power engineering and energy; System performance; Thyristors; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, 2000. Proceedings. The 12th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Toulouse
  • ISSN
    1063-6854
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6269-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISPSD.2000.856818
  • Filename
    856818