5-6-4-1-2 Bipolar and Hybrid Power Rectifiers
For higher voltage applications, bipolar minority carrier charge injection (i.e., conductivity modulation) should enable SiC pn diodes to carry higher current densities than unipolar Schottky diodes whose drift regions conduct solely using dopant-atom majority carriers . Consistent with silicon [...]
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1-8.Electrical Breakdown
The term electrical breakdown or electric breakdown has several similar but distinctly different meanings. For example, the term can apply to the failure of an electric circuit. Alternatively, it may refer to a rapid reduction in the resistance of an electrical insulator that [...]
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2-30.Dopant
A dopant, also called a doping agent, is a trace impurity element that is inserted into a substance (in very low concentrations) in order to alter the electrical properties or the opticalproperties of the substance. In the case of crystalline substances, the atoms of [...]
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5-5-3 SiC Contacts and Interconnect
All useful semiconductor electronics require conductive signal paths in and out of each device as well as
conductive interconnects to carry signals between devices on the same chip and to external circuit
elements that reside off-chip. While SiC itself is theoretically capable [...]
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In solid state physics, a band gap, also called an energy gap or bandgap, is an energy range in a solid where no electron states can exist. In graphs of the electronic band structure of solids, the band gap generally refers to the energy [...]
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2-12.Edge Exclusion
The outer annulus of the wafer is designated as wafer handling area and is excluded from surface nish criteria (such as scratches, pits, haze, contamination, craters,dimples, grooves, mounds, orange peel and saw marks). This annulus is 2 mm for 76.2 mm substrates, and [...]
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