{"title":"H/sup +/ irradiation for reverse recovery softness and reliability of power p-i-n diodes for snubberless applications","authors":"P. Cova, R. Menozzi, M. Portesine","doi":"10.1109/MIEL.2002.1003160","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We describe a coupled experimental-numerical study of the effect of proton irradiation on the inductive turn-off of fast-recovery p-i-n diodes for snubberless applications. The goal is to avoid the large overvoltages and spurious oscillations that may arise at switch-off and jeopardize the diode's reliability. We evaluated different proton irradiation profiles in order to extract indications on the optimum trade-off among switching speed, recovery softness, overvoltage and spurious oscillation damping.","PeriodicalId":221518,"journal":{"name":"2002 23rd International Conference on Microelectronics. Proceedings (Cat. No.02TH8595)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2002 23rd International Conference on Microelectronics. Proceedings (Cat. No.02TH8595)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MIEL.2002.1003160","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We describe a coupled experimental-numerical study of the effect of proton irradiation on the inductive turn-off of fast-recovery p-i-n diodes for snubberless applications. The goal is to avoid the large overvoltages and spurious oscillations that may arise at switch-off and jeopardize the diode's reliability. We evaluated different proton irradiation profiles in order to extract indications on the optimum trade-off among switching speed, recovery softness, overvoltage and spurious oscillation damping.