Trainings and Workshops

The main component of modern power electronics circuits is the semiconductor power switch. This course presents the fundamentals of power switches operations from a physical point of view, together with the specific peculiarities and the reason to use them in a special application. An overview on different packaging technologies and their properties, advantages and disadvantages, is also given. Requirements from the applications and possibilities to tackle them with a semiconductor package solution will be proposed.

The course is divided into two parts.

Part one tackles semiconductors and their theory:

• Basics like pn junction fundamentals, bipolar and field
  effect transitors
• comparison between semiconductor materials like
  silicon, SiC and GaN
• fundamental mechanisms taking place durting swit-
  ching operation
• driving technologies for power semiconductors

Part two introduces packaging theories:

• Introduction, analyzing and discussing packaging
  technologies for modern power semiconductors
• Interconnection solutions

The participants will be grouped and asked to team work on a real design. A final 1-day lecture is included where groups will compare and discuss the achievements and the design choices.