noise injection during latchup current

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Hi

Is the latchup due to majority or minority injection? This doubt came as I was reading about double guardring structures.

-bk
 

Latchup is caused by parasitic npnp structures. It happens for both polarities if the respective junctions are present, probably with different thresholds.
 

Hi @FvM ,
Shouldn't it be primarily from majority carrier injection? For e.g., in the case of powerfets in powerconverter chips, high side powerfet injects holes into the p-substrate which are majority carriers in psub. Likewise, low side powerfet injects electrons into the nwell.
 

Latch-up is triggered by forward biasing bipolar junctions. The latching is provided by minority carriers.
 

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