Integrated Power Devices and TCAD Simulation

Preface

Ever since the invention of the transistor in the late 1940s, the development of transistors followed in two major directions: device miniaturization and performance improvement. One of the key parameters for performance improvement is obviously the power rating of the transistor, with development that resulted in the area of power semiconductors. Because all electrical devices require a supply of power and power management electronics for proper operation, power semiconductors are an important area of transistor development over the past decades.

In recent years, device miniaturization has allowed the minimum feature size to approach the nanoscale, and present ultra-large scale integration (ULSI) technology is capable of putting billions ...