Thermal resistance matrix representation of thermal effects and thermal design in multi-finger power heterojunction bipolar transistors |
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| Authors: | Jin Dong-Yue Zhang Wan-Rong Chen Liang Fu Qiang Xiao Ying Wang Ren-Qing and Zhao Xin |
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| Affiliation: | College of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China |
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| Abstract: | The thermal resistance matrix including self-heating thermal resistance and thermal coupling resistance is presented to describe the thermal effects of multi-finger power heterojunction bipolar transistors. The dependence of thermal resistance matrix on finger spacing is also investigated. It is shown that both self-heating thermal resistance and thermal coupling resistance are lowered by increasing the finger spacing, in which the downward dissipated heat path is widened and the heat flow from adjacent fingers is effectively suppressed. The decrease of self-heating thermal resistance and thermal coupling resistance is helpful for improving the thermal stability of power devices. Furthermore, with the aid of the thermal resistance matrix, a 10-finger power heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) with non-uniform finger spacing is designed for high thermal stability. The optimized structure can effectively lower the peak temperature while maintaining a uniformity of the temperature profile at various biases and thus the device effectively may operate at a higher power level. |
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| Keywords: | heterojunction bipolar transistor power thermal stability thermal resistance matrix |
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