Overview
- Presents advances in the development of novel lateral power transistors
- Summarizes the feasibility for different applications based on integration density, process complexity and cost and achievable energy efficiency
- Include the state-of-the-art concept of double-acting RESURF topologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Power Systems (POWSYS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book summarizes and compares recent advancements in the development of novel lateral power transistors (LDMOS devices) for integrated circuits in power electronic applications.
In its first part, the book motivates the necessity for lateral power transistors by a top-down approach: First, it presents typical energy conversion applications in modern industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. Next, it introduces common circuit topologies suitable for these applications, and discusses the feasibility for monolithic integration. Finally, the combination of power and logic functionality on a single chip is motivated and the requirements and limitations for the power semiconductor devices are deduced.
The second part describes the evolution of lateral power transistors over the past decades from the simple pin-type concept to double-acting RESURF topologies. It describes the principle of operation for these LDMOS devices and discusses limitations of lateral power devices. Moreover, figures-of-merit are presented which can be used to evaluate the performance of the novel lateral power transistors described in this book with respect to the LDMOS devices.
In the last part, [..] the fundamental physical concepts including charge compensation and trench gate topologies are discussed. Also, the status of research in LDMOS devices on silicon carbide is presented. Advantages and drawbacks for each of these integration approaches are summarized, and the feasibility with respect to power electronic applications is evaluated.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lateral Power Transistors in Integrated Circuits
Authors: Tobias Erlbacher
Series Title: Power Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00500-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00499-0Published: 24 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34520-8Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00500-3Published: 08 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1612-1287
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4676
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 223
Number of Illustrations: 157 b/w illustrations
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Electronic Circuits and Devices