3

Source To Drain Diode Specifications

PARAMETER

SYMBOL

TEST CONDITIONS

MIN

TYP

MAX

UNITS

Continuous Source to Drain Current

Modified MOSFET Symbol

Showing the Integral

Reverse P-N Junction

Rectifier

-

-

8.0

A

Pulse Source to Drain Current

(Note 3)

-

-

32

A

Drain to Source Diode Voltage (Note 2)

-

-

2.0

V

Reverse Recovery Time

210

460

970

ns

Reverse Recovery Charge

2

4

8.9

µC

NOTE:

2. Pulse Test: Pulse Width

≤ 300µs, Duty Cycle ≤ 2%.

3. Repetitive Rating: Pulse width limited by Max junction temperature. See Transient Thermal Impedance Curve (Figure 3).

Typical Performance Curves

FIGURE 1. NORMALIZED POWER DISSIPATION vs CASE

TEMPERATURE

FIGURE 2. MAXIMUM CONTINUOUS DRAIN CURRENT vs

CASE TEMPERATURE

FIGURE 3. NORMALIZED MAXIMUM TRANSIENT THERMAL IMPEDANCE

G

D

S

0

50

100

150

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.0

1.2

25

50

75

100

125

150

10

8

6

4

2

0

0.1

1

10

1

0.1

RECTANGULAR PULSE DURATION (s)

SINGLE PULSE

NOTES:

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.05

0.02

0.01

2

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