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Method for the production of a gate turn-off thyristor having an anode-side stop layer and a transparent anode emitter

US5869358A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 4, 1997
Grant dateFeb 9, 1999
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Expiry dateSep 4, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10D62/142
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A two-stage method is proposed for producing a highly transparent anode emitter (2) in a GTO (1). In a first step, an anode emitter (2) is indiffused whose thickness is greater than 0.5 .mu.m and whose doping concentration is greater than 10.sup.17 cm.sup.-3. In a second step, the emitter efficiency of the anode emitter (2) is subsequently reduced to a desired degree by local carrier life setting.

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