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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeno Tihanyi, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 34 ; 357 36 ; 357 51 ; 357 68 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a power transistor with a semiconductor body. When shutting off a power transistor, local fusing of the semiconductor body may occur, if a characteristic power loss is exceeded for a certain period of time (second breakdown). This can be avoided, if the transistor includes a multiplicity of small partial transistors with very narrow emitter zones which are mutually paralleled via a ballast resistance each.