Mosgate driver integrated circuit with adaptive dead time

摘要

An IGBT device, comprising a substrate having a conductivity type; a drain electrode arranged on a bottom surface of the substrate; an epitaxial layer arranged on the substrate and having a conductivity type opposite that of the substrate; at least one body diffusion arranged within the epitaxial layer and having a conductivity type the same as that of the substrate; at least one source diffusion arranged within the body diffusion and having a conductivity type the same as that of the epitaxial layer; a gate electrode to control the IGBT device; a source electrode electrically coupled to the body diffusion and the source diffusion; an additional diffusion arranged within the epitaxial layer and having a conductivity type the same as that of the substrate, the additional diffusion forming a collector region of a vertical bipolar arrangement in the IGBT; and a sense electrode electrically coupled to the additional diffusion; wherein the presence of minority carriers in the epitaxial layer may be detected in accordance with a voltage of the sense electrode.