List of Acronyms

AlN ... Aluminum nitride
ASIPM ... Application specific IPM
BJT ... Bipolar junction transistor
BiCMOS ... Bipolar CMOS
BTE ... Boltzmann transport equation
BV ... Breakdown voltage
CMOS ... Complementary MOS
DC ... Direct current
DMOS ... Double diffused MOS
DGLILET ... Double gate lateral inversion layer emitter transistor
DMOSFET ... Double-diffused MOS transistor
FACT ... Flexible AC transmission
FBSOA ... Forward biased safe operating area
FG-LDMOST ... Folded gate LDMOSFET
FOX ... Field oxide
GaN ... Gallium nitride
GTO ... Gate turn-off thyristor
HD ... Hydrodynamic
HV ... High-voltage
HVDC ... High-voltage direct current
HVIC ... High-voltage IC
IC ... Integrated circuit
IEGT ... Injection-enhanced gate transistor
IGBT ... Insulated gate bipolar transistor
IPM ... Intelligent power module
IV ... Current voltage
JFET ... Junction field-effect transistor
JI ... Junction isolation
LDD ... Lightly doped drain
LDMOSFET ... Lateral double diffused MOS transistor
LIGBT ... Lateral IGBT
LMCT ... Lateral MCT
LUDMOSFET ... Lateral U-diode MOSFET
LV ... Low-voltage

MCT ... MOS-controlled thyristor
MM6 ... MINIMOS mobility model
MOS ... Metal-oxide semiconductor
MOSFET ... Metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
NMOS ... $ n$-channel MOS
PIC ... Power IC
PMOS ... $ p$-channel MOS
P-SOI ... Partial-SOI
RESURF ... Reduced surface field
RF ... Radio frequency
SA-LIGBT ... Shorted-anode LIGBT
SCR ... Silicon controlled rectifier
SIT ... Static induction transistor
SiC ... Silicon carbide
SiN ... Silicon nitride
SJ ... Super-junction
SMPS ... Switch-mode power supply
SOA ... Safe operating area
SOI ... Silicon on insulator
SRH ... Shockley-Read-Hall
TCAD ... Technology computer aided design
TLPM/S ... Trench lateral power MOSFETs with a trench bottom source contact
ULSI ... Ultra large scale integration
UMOSFET ... U-shape metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
UPS ... Uninterruptible power supply
VCR ... Videocassette recorder
VDMOSFET ... Vertical DMOSFET
VLSI ... Very large scale integration

Jong-Mun Park 2004-10-28