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Xiaoxue Yan1, Lin Liang1, Xinyuan Huang1
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
Abstract:
Silicon carbide (SiC) drift step recovery diode (DSRD) is a kind of opening-type pulsed power device with wide bandgap material. The super junction (SJ) structure is introduced in the SiC DSRD for the first time in this paper, in order to increase the hardness of the recovery process, and improve the blocking capability at the same time. The device model of the SJ SiC DSRD is established and its breakdown principle is verified. The effects of various structure parameters including the concentration, the thickness, and the width of the SJ layer on the electrical characteristics of the SJ SiC DSRD are discussed. The characteristics of the SJ SiC DSRD and the conventional SiC DSRD are compared. The results show that the breakdown voltage of the SJ SiC DSRD is 28% higher than that of the conventional SiC DSRD, and the dv/dt output by the circuit based on SJ SiC DSRD is 31% higher than that of conventional SiC DSRD. It is verified that the SJ SiC DSRD can achieve higher voltage, higher cut-off current and harder recovery characteristics than the conventional SiC DSRD, so as to output a higher dv/dt voltage on the load.
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