IEC 60747-6:2016 provides standards for the following types of discrete semiconductor devices:
- reverse-blocking triode thyristors,
- reverse-conducting (triode) thyristors,
- bidirectional triodethyristors (triacs),
- turn-off thyristors.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) Clauses 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 were amended with some deletions of information no longer in use or already included in other parts of the IEC 60747 series, and with some necessary additions,
b) some parts of Clause 8 and Clause 9 were moved and added to Clause 7 of this third edition,
c) Clause 8 and 9 were deleted in this third edition,
d) Annex A was deleted.

This publication is to be read in conjunction with IEC 60747-1:2006.