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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Friedhelm Bauer, Ittigen, CH;
Peter Streit, Widen, CH;
Assignee:
ABB Management AG, Baden, CH;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257152 ; 257163 ; 257172 ;
Abstract
A GTO having a cathode emitter (7) is specified, which cathode emitter has a low emission efficiency. This cathode emitter (7) provides a clearly increased resistance to the formation of current filaments. As a result, relatively high turn-off current densities can be reliably mastered. In addition, the fraction of the hole current in the total current is more than 10%. This is achieved, for example, by selecting the penetration depth as <1 .mu.m and the edge concentration as <10.sup.19 cm.sup.-3.