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Wikipedia tells me HVDC runs at 100s of kilovolts. What kind of semiconductor can handle that without promptly turning into plasma?
by flangola7 4y ago
Wikipedia tells me HVDC runs at 100s of kilovolts. What kind of semiconductor can handle that without promptly turning into plasma?
- dreamcompiler 4y agoBig ones, usually made of silicon carbide.
- cwillu 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pole_2_Thyristor_Valve.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pole_2_Thyristor_Valve.jp... My understanding is that the semi's are stacked so that any individual switch only sees a voltage it can handle, with safeguards to cut off the whole mess on failure.