This paper presents a critical and detailed overview of experimental techniques for the
extraction of the thermal resistance of bipolar transistors from simple DC current/voltage …

A basic challenge in the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) transient simulation study is
to obtain the realistic junction temperature, which demands not only accurate electrical …

Many different methods have been proposed in the literature for the extraction of the thermal
resistance of heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs). This review presents a detailed …

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of nonlinear thermal effects in bipolar
transistors under static conditions. The influence of these effects on the thermal resistance is …

Heat at the junction of light-emitting diodes (LED) affects the overall performance of the LED
in terms of light output, spectrum, and life. Usually it is difficult to measure junction …

A test bench is proposed to study, at die-level, the power losses and current distribution in
power devices. It is based on an infrared camera and a flexible half-bridge resonant inverter …

This paper presents an extensive numerical analysis of the thermal behavior of InGaP/GaAs
HBTs for handset applications in a laminate (package) environment. Both wire-bonding and …

A novel nonlinear model order reduction method is proposed for constructing one-port
dynamic compact models of nonlinear heat diffusion problems for ultra-thin chip stacking …

Different approaches to implement self-heating effects in a compact model are evaluated.
The traditional approach using a subcircuit with the addition of an internal node can lead to …

We report on the modeling of self-heating in GaN-based devices. While a constant thermal
resistance is able to account for the self-heating effects at low power, the decrease of the …