THE SWITCHING BEHAVIOR OF THE SHORTED ANODE BASE RESISTANCE MOS-CONTROLLED THYRISTOR

The electrical performance of a shorted anode BRT structure is describ ed. It is shown that the inclusion of the back side shorted anode stru cture reduces the BRT transient losses since it allows a direct path f or the extraction of electrons stored in the N- region during the turn -off process. The static and transient device operation has been analy sed by numerical simulations. The reduction of the turn-off losses has been experimentally demonstrated by experimental data from fabricated 1100 V multicell structures. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All right s reserved.