Fundamentals of Power Semiconductor Devices

by B. Jayant Baliga

Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0387473130

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Book Description

Fundamentals of Power Semiconductor Devices provides an in-depth treatment of the physics of operation of power semiconductor devices that are commonly used by the power electronics industry. Analytical models for explaining the operation of all power semiconductor devices are developed. The treatment focuses on silicon devices but includes the unique attributes and design requirements for emerging silicon carbide devices.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications, B. Jayant Baliga discusses:

• Numerical simulation examples to elucidate the operating physics and validate the models
• Device performance attributes that allow practicing engineers in the industry to develop products
• Treatment of all types of power rectifiers and transistors to create a comprehensive reference in the field
• Fundamentals of Power Semiconductor Devices will be of interest to practicing engineers in the power semiconductor device community and can also serve as an ideal textbook for teaching courses on power semiconductor devices due to the extensive analytical treatment provided for all device structures.

Customer Reviews

Purchased this for a graduate class actually taught by Baliga, so I'll try to separate the book itself from learning the book from him.

This is a good reference text. It's a bit rougher to learn the devices from scratch. It's fairly practical at a lot of points - Baliga states that relationships are present and shows you plots of relevant info, but doesn't provide as much details as you might want. As you'd expect the treatment on IGBTs is very good. The other devices are also covered pretty well, usually from first principles, and the focus is largely on practicality. If you're working with power devices (basically all SiC), especially IGBT, this is working checking out, but not the best to learn from if you're trying to do so by reading alone.

Hello,

I have read the whole chapter dedicated to IGBTs, few part from BJTs and some more parts on the basic properties for Silicon.

I think this book was excellent for getting a deep knowledge in IGBT. I belivied this should also be valid for the rest of the topics: you can find the same concepts repeatly introduced in many section/chapter. This is very good, on one hand, when you read the text not-from-the-beginning but skipping among the topics from section to another section (as I have done), but, on the other hand, it makes the book very heavy! Though, I tried to read some of the most quoted books on Power Semicond. and my overall considerations make me think this remains the best one.