Abstract
There is a renewal of interest in open circuit voltage decay as a technique for determining the base region minority carrier lifetime in semiconductor diodes. Although the existing theory of open circuit voltage decay provides a substantial foundation for interpreting the experimental data, major features of the decay curves of real silicon diodes cannot be satisfactorily explained unless depletion layer effects are taken into account. Theoretical decay curves are calculated to show the effects of depletion layer capacitance and recombination current on the otherwise ideal open circuit voltage decay. From these and from experimental decay curves, it is shown that each of these depletion layer effects is significant only below a threshold junction voltage that depends upon material parameters of the device.
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