SYMPOSIA PAPER
Published:
01 January 1974
STP47408S
Effects of Oxygen and Gold on Silicon Power Devices
SourceSeveral important features that make the two-probes spreading resistance technique a unique process control tool for designing and manufacturing silicon power devices are elucidated in terms of the effects of electrically active oxygen and gold centers on the characteristics of transistors, thyristors, and rectifiers. The effectiveness of the spreading resistance technique is compared to other commonly practiced techniques for the investigation of diffusion mechanisms of oxygen in homotaxial NPN transistors and of gold in fast switching rectifiers and thyristors.
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Assour, Jacques
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Developed by Committee: F01
Pages: 201–208
DOI: 10.1520/STP47408S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-6938-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-6661-5