.Modelica.Electrical.Analog.Semiconductors.Diode

Information

The simple diode is an electrical one port, where a heat port is added, which is defined in the Modelica.Thermal library. It consists of the diode itself and a parallel ohmic resistance R. If useTemperatureDependency is set to true, the diode formula is:

           v/N/vt_t
i = Ids (e          - 1)

vt_t = k*temp/q

If useTemperatureDependency is set to false, the diode formula utilizes the voltage equivalent of the temperature, i.e.,

           v/Vt
i = Ids (e      - 1).

If the exponent v/N/vt_t or v/Vt, respectively, reaches the limit Maxexp, the diode characteristic is linearly continued to avoid overflow.
The thermal power is calculated by i*v.

Revisions

• March 11, 2009 by Christoph Clauss
  conditional heat port added
  
• April 5, 2004 by Christoph Clauss
  implemented