silicon controlled rectifier

Japanese: silicon controlled rectifier(英語表記)siliconcontrolledrectifier
silicon controlled rectifier

...Their capacity ranges from a few hundred volts and a few amperes used in home appliances to several thousand volts and several thousand amperes used in power systems. There are many types of thyristors, but the most commonly used is the reverse blocking three-terminal thyristor called SCR (abbreviation of silicon controlled rectifier), which is often simply called a thyristor.
[principle]
A reverse blocking three terminal thyristor has a p-n-p-n four layer structure as shown in Figure 1.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "silicon controlled rectifier" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その容量は家電製品で用いられる数百V,数A級のものから,電力システム用の数千V,数千A級まで広範囲にわたっている。サイリスターには多くの種類があるが,通常もっとも多く使われているSCR(silicon controlled rectifierの略)と呼ばれる逆阻止3端子形のサイリスターを略して単にサイリスターということが多い。
[原理]
 逆阻止3端子サイリスターは図1に示すようなp‐n‐p‐n4層構造をもつ。…

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