• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.214-217
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• 2017

An IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) device has an excellent current-conducting capability. It has been widely employed as a switching device to use in power supplies, converters, solar inverters, and household appliances or the like, designed to handle high power. The aim with IGBT is to meet the requirements for use in ideal power semiconductor devices with a high breakdown voltage, an on-state voltage drop, a high switching speed, and high reliability for power-device applications. In general, the concentration of the drift region decreases when the breakdown voltage increases, but the on-resistance and other characteristics should be reduced to improve the breakdown voltage and on-state voltage drop characteristics by optimizing the design and structure changes. In this paper, using the T-CAD, we designed the NPT-IGBT (non punch-through IGBT) and FS-IGBT (field stop IGBT) and analyzed the electrical characteristics of those devices. Our analysis of the electrical characteristics showed that the FS-IGBT was superior to the NPT-IGBT in terms of the on-state voltage drop.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.496-500
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• 2015

This paper was proposed the theoretical research and optimal design 3000V super junction NPT IGBT for using electrical automotive and power conversion. Because super junction IGBT was showed ultra low on resistance, it was structure that can improve the thermal characteristics of conventional NPT IGBT. The electrical characteristics of super junction NPT IGBT were 2.52 V of on state voltage drop, 4.33 V of threshold voltage and 2,846 V breakdown voltage. We did not obtaing 3,000 V breakdown voltage but we will obtain 3,000 V breakdown voltage through improving p pillar layer. If we are carried this research, This device will be used electrical automotive, power conversiton and high speed train.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.50-55
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• 2016

In this paper, we have analyzed the electrical characteristics of 1200V trench gate field stop IGBT and have compared to NPT planar type IGBT and NPT planar field stop IGBT. As a result of analyzing, we obtained superior electrical characteristics of trench gate field stop IGBT than conventional IGBT. To begin with, the breakdown voltage characteristic was showed 1,460 V and on state voltage drop was showed 0.7 V. We obtained 3.5 V threshold voltage, too. To use these results, we have extracted optimal design and process parameter and designed trench gate field stop IGBT. The designed trench gate IGBT will use to inverter of renewable energy and automotive industry.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.187-192
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• 2012

Development of new efficient, high voltage switching devices with wide safe operating area and low on-state losses has received considerable attention in recent years. One of those structures with a very effective geometrical design is the trench gate Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor(IGBT).power IGBT devices are optimized for high-voltage low-power design, decided to aim. Class 1,200 V NPT Planer IGBT, 1,200 V NPT Trench IGBT for class has been studied.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.785-789
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• 2013

Silicon Carbide (SiC) is the material with the wide band-gap (3.26 eV), high critical electric field (~2.3 MV/cm), and high bulk electron mobility (~900 $cm^2/Vs$). These electronic properties allow attractive features, such as high breakdown voltage, high-speed switching capability, and high temperature operation compared to Si devices. In general, device design has a significant effect on the switching and electrical characteristics. It is known that in this paper, we demonstrated that the switching performance and breakdown voltage of IGBT is dependent with doping concentration of p-base region and drift layer by using 2-D simulations. As a result, electrical characteristics of SiC-IGBT deivce is higher breakdown voltage ($V_B$= 1,600 V), lower on-resistance ($R_{on}$= 0.43 $m{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$) than Si-IGBT. Also, we determined that processing time and cost is reduced by the depth of n-drift region of IGBT was reduced.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.490-495
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• 2015

This paper was proposed the theoretical research and optimal design 3,000 V IGBT for using electrical automotive, high speed train and first power conversion. To obtaining 3,000 V breakdown voltage, the design parameters was showed $160{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ resistivity and $430{\mu}m$ drift length. And to maintain 5 V threshold voltage, we obtained $6.5{\times}10^{13}cm^{-2}$ p-base dose. We confirmed $24{\mu}m$ cell pitch for maintain optimal on state voltage drop and thermal characteristics. This 3,000 V IGBT was replaced to thyristor devices using first power conversion and high speed train, presently.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.681-684
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• 2016

This research was carried out experiments of variety IGBTs for industrial inverter and electric vehicle. The devices for this paper were planar gate IGBT, trench gate IGBT and dual gate IGBT and we designed using same design and process parameters. As a result of experiments, the electrical characteristics of planar gate IGBT were 1,459 V of breakdown voltage, 4.04 V of threshold voltage and 4.7 V of on-state voltage drop. And the electrical characteristics of trench gate IGBT were 1,473 V of breakdown voltage, 4.11 V of threshold voltage and 3.17 V of on-state voltage drop. Lastly, the electrical characteristics of dual gate IGBT were 1,467 V of breakdown voltage, 4.14 V of threshold voltage and 3.08V of on-state voltage drop. We almost knew that the trench gate IGBT was superior to dual gate IGBT in terms of breakdown voltage. On the other hand, the dual gate IGBT was better than the trench gate IGBT in terms of on state voltage drop.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.83-88
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• 1999

Series connection of power semiconductor devices is selected in high voltage and high power applications. It is important to prevent the overvoltage from being induced across a device above ratings by the proper voltage balancing in the field of IGBT series connection. In addition, the overvoltage induced by a stray inductance has to be limited in the high power circuit. This paper proposes a new gate control scheme which can balance the voltage properly and limit the overshoot by controlling the slope of collector voltage under the turn-off transient in the series connected IGBTs. The proposed gate control scheme changes the slope of collector voltage by sensing the collector voltage and controlling the gate signal actively. The new series connected IGBT gate driver is made and its validity is verified by the experimental results for series connected IGBT circuit.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.551-554
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• 2015

This paper was analyzed electrical characteristics of super junction IGBT with super junction field rings. As a result of super junction IGBT with super junction field rings, we obtained 3,300 V breakdown voltage and good thermal characteristics. we obtained shrinked chip size because field ring was decreased than field ring for conventional IGBT, too. And we fabricated super junction IGBT with super junction field rings. As a result of measuring fabricated chip, we obtained 3,300 V breakdown voltage. The fabricated devices were replaced thyristos using high voltage conversion, sufficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.22-23
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• 2008

The conventional IGBT has two problems to make the device taking high performance. The one is high on state voltage drop associated with JFET region, the other is low breakdown voltage associated with concentrating the electric field on the junction of between p base and n drift. This paper is about the structure to effectively improve both the lower on state voltage drop and the higher breakdown voltage than the conventional IGBT. For the fabrication of the circular trench IGBT with the circular trench layer, it is necessary to perform the only one wet oxidation step for the circular trench layer. Analysis on both the on state voltage drop and the Breakdown voltage show the improved values compared to the conventional IGBT structure. Because the circular trench layer disperses electric field from p base and n drift junction to circular trench, the breakdown voltage increase. The on state voltage drop decrease due to reduction of JFET region and direction change of current path which pass through reversed layer channel.