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Development of Semiconductors and Igbt Sensors in Russia

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

What is a semi-conductor? It’s generally made of materials with certain electrical resistance (it is among the resistance of a conductor and a non-conductor). The resistance of semi-conductors also depends on variations of temperature or used admixtures.
The term “impurities” is for the other substances mixed to the material. The complete combination defines the semiconductors as power semiconductor devices of type-n or type-t.
They produce diodes as well as transistors combining these types of semi-conductors. It’s known that today the most wide spread material for semiconductor manufacture is silicon.
Just to send the process of electrical current in only one direction diodes are useful. They are made of semi-conductor substance. In each diode there is a component produced of positive and negative constructions (known as p- and n-) and of barrier level (or pn-transfer). Electrical circuits that change among alternating and direct electrical current are made using diodes. As diodes make current stay just in one sense only a part of the period or cycle is completed. Rectifier is the term for such a connection.
LED (light diodes) is a different type of diodes. Such diodes are used in case it’s necessary to generate light at small voltages and parallel get no warmth. Those diodes are applied in all kinds of up-to-date electronic equipment including TV sets or audio systems specially to signal the on state.
The development of thyristors industry was governed by Moore’s law. The most important point for producing complicated power semi-conductor devices at smaller cost is today lithography. For optical lithography is already outdated, there’s now a tendency for new technologies. It is now gradually being replaced by more contemporary ultraviolet lithography and nano-imprint lithography. X-ray lithography and electron beam lithography now are also thought to be of big potential. (more…)