Reverse-conducting thyristor

Details Reverse-conducting thyristor Reverse-conducting thyristor

1988-03-18

1990-07-24

Clawson, Jr., Joseph E.

357 22, 357 38, 357 55, 357 56, H01L 29747

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049438409

ABSTRACT:
A reverse-conducting thyristor having an integrated antiparallel diode, wherein an improvement of the switching characteristics is achieved by the fact that a field-controlled thyristor (FCT) is provided as the thyristor. According to a preferred illustrative embodiment, this FCT includes at the cathode side of the thyristor a plurality of alternately arranged n.sup.+ -doped cathode regions and p-doped gate regions, the cathode regions being separated from each other by troughs over the bottoms of which the gate regions extend.

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