ABSTRACT The proposed light-controlled cascode is a power electronic device (or circuitry) which can be turned-on and -off by optical excitation. In contrast to the light-triggered thyristor, which can optically be turned-on but not -off, the proposed device allows optical turn-on and -off. Also, it allows a scalability of the blocking voltage by the extension to a light-controlled supercascode [1] which is also shown. After a brief theoretical consideration experimental set-ups will be presented and measurements are shown. Due to the difficulty to buy appropriate devices required for the experimental set-ups some compromises were necessary. Therefore, these first experiments show a very slow switching behaviour. However, this could become speeded up by an optimized photodiode made from wide band gap semiconductor material. In spite of these compromises pulses with a power of 1 kW were turned-on and – off by the experimental set-up. However, this device is far away from being ready for series production but the feasibility is demonstrated and the potentials are shown.

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光控（超级）共源共栅，LC(S)C，一种具有光通断功能的功率器件

摘要 所提出的光控共源共栅是一种电力电子设备（或电路），可以通过光激发来开启和关闭。与可以光导通但不能光关断的光触发晶闸管相比，所提出的器件允许光导通和关断。此外，它还允许通过扩展到光控超级共源共栅 [1] 来扩展阻塞电压，这也显示了。在简要的理论考虑之后，将介绍实验装置并显示测量结果。由于难以购买实验装置所需的适当设备，因此必须做出一些妥协。因此，这些最初的实验显示出非常缓慢的切换行为。然而，这可以通过由宽带隙半导体材料制成的优化光电二极管来加速。尽管有这些妥协，1 kW 功率的脉冲还是由实验装置打开和关闭。然而，该设备远未准备好进行批量生产，但已证明其可行性并展示了潜力。