Lesson-04-Diode电子技术专业英语教程.ppt

《电子技术专业英语教程》 Unit 2 Semiconductor device Lesson 4 Diode Lesson 4 Diode  Terminology threshold voltage Depletion region History of diode Some diode symbols Terminology forward-biase 正向偏置 voltage drop 压降 depletion region 耗尽层 boltzmann’s constant 玻耳兹曼常数 emission coefficient 发射系数 thermal voltage 热电压 room temperature 室温 leakage current 漏电流 peak inverse voltage 峰值反向电压 Schottky diode 肖特基二极管 minority carrier 少数载流子 heterojunction diode 异质结二极管 homojunction diode 同质结二极管 threshold voltage 阈值电压 Threshold voltage The threshold voltage of a MOSFET is usually defined as the gate voltage where an inversion layer forms at the interface between the insulating layer (oxide) and the substrate (body) of the transistor. Depletion region In semiconductor physics, the depletion region, also called depletion layer, depletion zone, junction region or the space charge region, is an insulating region within a conductive, doped semiconductor material where the charge carriers have diffused away, or have been forced away by an electric field. The depletion region is so named because it is formed from a conducting region by removal of all free charge carriers, leaving none to carry a current. Understanding the depletion region is key to explaining modern semiconductor electronics: diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors, and variable capacitance diodes all rely on depletion region phenomena. History of diode Although the crystal (solid state) diode was popularized before the thermionic diode, thermionic and solid state diodes were developed in parallel. The basic principle of operation of thermionic diodes was discovered by Frederick Guthrie in 1873.Guthrie discovered that a positively-charged electroscope could be discharged by bringing a grounded piece of white-hot metal close to it (but not actually touching it). The same did not apply to a negatively charged elect