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Optical switch-on of silicon carbide thyristor

Levinshtein et al., 2002

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Levinshtein M
Ivanov P
Agarwal A
Palmour J
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Electronics Letters

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Optical switch-on of a silicon carbide thyristor has been demonstrated for the first time. A 2.6 kV 4H-SiC thyristor can be turned on by the light pulse of an ultraviolet laser with wavelength λ= 337 nm. The threshold energy of the light pulse, required to turn the thyristor on, is J th≃ …
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