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Design And Characterization Of High Temperature Packaging For Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Devices, Brian Grummel Jan 2012

Design And Characterization Of High Temperature Packaging For Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Devices, Brian Grummel

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Advances in wide-bandgap semiconductor devices have increased the allowable operating temperature of power electronic systems. High-temperature devices can benefit applications such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, and space-based power electronics that currently require bulky cooling systems for silicon power devices. Cooling systems can typically be reduced in size or removed by adopting wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, such as silicon carbide. However, to do this, semiconductor device packaging with high reliability at high temperatures is necessary. Transient liquid phase (TLP) die-attach has shown in literature to be a promising bonding technique for this packaging need. In this work TLP has been comprehensively …


Characterization, Morphology, Oxidation, And Recession Of Silicon Nanowires Grown By Electroless Process, Robert G. Mertens Jan 2012

Characterization, Morphology, Oxidation, And Recession Of Silicon Nanowires Grown By Electroless Process, Robert G. Mertens

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This dissertation presents heretofore undiscovered properties of Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs) grown by electroless process and presents mathematical solutions to the special problems of the oxidation and diffusion of dopants for SiNWs. Also presented here is a mathematical description of morphology of oxidized SiNWs. This dissertation is comprised of several discussions relating to SiNWs growth, oxidation, morphology and doping. In here is presented work derived from a long-term study of SiNWs. Several important aspects of SiNWs were investigated and the results published in journals and conference papers. The recession of SiNWs was heretofore unreported by other research groups. In our investigations, …