Irradiation with Argon Ions of Cr/4H-SiC Photodetectors

Semiconductors - The results of the effect of irradiation with Ar ions on the structural, electrophysical, and optical characteristics of ultraviolet Cr/4H-SiC photodetectors in the spectral range...     

Impact of High-Energy Electron Irradiation on Surge Currents in 4H-SiC JBS Schottky Diodes

Semiconductors - The effect of irradiation with high-energy (0.9 MeV) electrons on surge currents in high-voltage (operating voltage 1700 V) 4H -SiC Schottky p-n diodes is studied in the...     

Advanced High-Voltage 4H-SiC Schottky Rectifiers

This paper presents advanced 4H-SiC high-voltage Schottky rectifiers with improved performance when compared to conventional 4H-SiC Schottky rectifiers. Two types of 4H-SiC junction barrier Schottky (JBS) rectifiers have been explored. These rectifiers offer Schottky-like ON-state and fast switching characteristics, while their OFF-state characteristics have a low leakage current similar to that of the PiN junction rectifier. Planar 4H-SiC JBS rectifiers, with more than 1-kV blocking capability and orders of magnitude lower reverse leakage current than that of conventional SiC Schottky rectifiers, have been demonstrated. In addition, a novel device structure, called lateral channel JBS rectifier, was designed and experimentally demonstrated in 4H-SiC with up to 1.5-kV blocking capability and pinlike reverse characteristics.      

4H-SiC肖特基微型同位素电池(英文)

半导体同位素电池由于其寿命长、集成性优良、环境适应性强等特点成为解决MEMS能源问题的理想手段。利用4H-SiC材料的宽禁带特性,制造了4H-SiC肖特基同位素电池。对电池的耗尽层厚度以及掺杂浓度进行了优化设计,对肖特基金属进行了选择。使用4mCi/cm2的63Ni作为同位素电池的放射源对制造的同位素电池进行了测试。测试结果表明,该同位素电池可以获得31.3nW/cm2的功率密度、0.5V的开路电压、3.13×10-8A/cm2的短路电流密度和1.3%的转换效率。将电池的输出特性和硅基的平板型、3D结构电池输出特性进行了比较,证明4H-SiC肖特基同位素电池能够获得较高的功率密度。电池的性能可通过提升势垒高度、提高工艺质量、更换同位素等方式得到提高。     

High-Voltage 4H-SiC Schottky Diodes with Field-Plate Edge Termination

Semiconductors - High-voltage (2000V) 4H-SiC Schottky diodes are fabricated. To suppress the premature breakdown at the edge of diode structures, a field plate is formed as the edge termination. In...     

A dual-metal-trench Schottky pinch-rectifier in 4H-SiC

Characteristics of high-voltage dual-metal-trench (DMT) SiC Schottky pinch-rectifiers are reported for the first time. At a reverse bias of 300 V, the reverse leakage current of the SiC DMT device is 75 times less than that of a planar device while the forward bias characteristics remain comparable to those of a planar device. In this work, 4H-SiC pinch-rectifiers have been fabricated using a small/large barrier height (Ti/Ni) DMT device structure. The DMT structure is specially designed to permit simple fabrication in SiC. The Ti Schottky contact metal serves as a self-aligned trench etch mask and only four basic fabrication steps are required     

High voltage 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes

Characteristics of 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes with breakdown voltages up to 1000 V are reported for the first time. The diodes showed excellent forward I-V characteristics, with a forward voltage drop of 1.06 V at an on-state current density of 100 A/cm². The specific on-resistance for these diodes was found to be low (2×10 ^-3 Ω-cm² at room temperature) and showed a T ^1.6 variation with temperature. Titanium Schottky barrier height was determined to be 0.99 eV independent of the temperature. The breakdown voltage of the diodes was found to decrease with temperature     

Correction of the Reverse Recovery Characteristics of High-Voltage 4H-SiC Junction Diodes Using Proton Irradiation

Semiconductors - The effect of proton irradiation on the electrical characteristics of high-voltage (3 kV) 4H-SiC junction diodes is studied. The diodes are irradiated through a 10-μm-thick Ni...     

JTE结构4H-SiC肖特基二极管的研究

借助半导体仿真软件Silvaco,仿真一种具有结终端扩展（JTE）结构的碳化硅（SiC）肖特基二极管（SBD）。其机理是通过JTE结构降低肖特基结边缘的电场集中效应,从而优化肖特基二极管的反向耐压能力。研究JTE区深度、宽度及掺杂浓度对碳化硅肖特基二极管的反向耐压的影响。通过优化结终端结构的结构参数使碳化硅肖特基二极管的反向耐压特性达到更好的性能要求。     

Study of 4H-SiC JBS Diodes Fabricated with Tungsten Schottky Barrier

Tungsten is a suitable metal contact for high-temperature applications. We fabricated 1.7-kV and 6-kV 4H-SiC junction barrier Schottky (JBS) diodes with a tungsten Schottky contact with different geometries, and their forward characteristics were measured up to 300°C. The 1.7-kV diodes exhibited unipolar conduction up to 6 V at 275°C, whereas 6-kV diodes showed ideal on-resistance, R _on. An optimized JBS design permits a higher breakdown voltage to be obtained than for the pure Schottky diode, with a reasonable increase (10%) of the on-resistance. Results demonstrate the feasibility of tungsten JBS diodes for fast-switching, high-voltage, and high-temperature applications.     

AlGaN solar-blind Schottky photodiodes fabricated on 4H-SiC

Solar-blind AlGaN-based Schottky photodiodes grown on 4H-SiC substrate are reported. The fabricated devices demonstrate dark current density as low as 2.2/spl times/10/sup -10/ A/cm/sup 2/ at a reverse bias of 5 V. A zero-bias peak responsivity of 44 mA/W was achieved at 256 nm, corresponding to an external quantum efficiency of 21%. Under a low illumination power density of 10 nW/cm/sup 2/, a rejection ratio of more than two orders of magnitude was observed in the wavelength range from 270 to 310 nm. A room-temperature solar-blind detectivity of 7.9/spl times/10/sup 14/ cm/spl middot/Hz/sup 1/2/W/sup -1/ was estimated at 256 nm under zero bias.     

4H-SiC浮动结JBS器件的设计方法

研究了4H-SiC浮动结(FJ)结势垒肖特基(JBS)二极管的设计方法。提出在上外延层厚度一定的情况下得到外延层最佳掺杂浓度,然后以器件的功率优值(BFOM值)为依据确定出最佳下外延层厚度,进而设计出浮动结和表面结的最佳结构参数。否定了文献中认为浮动结位于器件中部为最佳设计的结论。仿真结果表明浮动结和表面结线宽比不仅影响器件导通特性,还会影响反向特性。浮动结线宽比在一定范围内会略微影响器件击穿电压,而表面结线宽比主要影响器件的反向泄漏电流。     

High performance of high-voltage 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes

High performance of high-voltage rectifiers could be realized utilizing 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes. A typical specific on-resistance (R_on) of these devices was 1.4×10³ Ω cm³ at 24°C (room temperature) with breakdown voltages as high as 800 V. These devices based on 4H-SiC had R _on's lower than 6H-SiC based high-power rectifiers with the same breakdown voltage. As for Schottky contact metals, Au, Ni, and Ti were employed in this study. The barrier heights of these metals for 4H-SiC were determined by the analysis of current-voltage characteristics, and the reduction of power loss could be achieved by controlling the barrier heights     

Ni/4H-SiC肖特基势垒二极管研制

采用微电子平面工艺,高真空电子束热蒸发金属Ni分别作肖特基接触和欧姆接触,二级场限环终端表面保护,研制出Ni/4H-SiC肖特基势垒二极管(SBD)。I-V特性测量说明,Ni/4H-SiCSBD有较好的整流特性,热电子发射是其主要的运输机理。反向击穿电压达1500V,理想因子为1.2,肖特基势垒高度为0.92eV。     

台面结构对4H-SiC紫外探测器性能的影响

制备了4种具有不同光窗口台面结构的4H-SiC紫外探测器#1,#2,#3和#4,并分别测试它们的紫外光响应谱.器件制备在4H-SiC同质外延层上,台面为垂直结构,其中探测器#1光窗口区由透明Pt层、p 层、p层、n层和n 衬底组成.在探测器#1的基础上用离子刻蚀的方法分别剥离透明Pt层、透明Pt层和p 层、透明Pt层和层以及p层制备出探测器#2,#3和#4.器件的紫外光响应谱表明,紫外响应率最好的是探测器#2,其次是探测器#4,#1,#3,其中探测器#2比其他类型的探测器响应率高1个数量级;4种类型的探测器峰值响应位置各不相同,其中探测器#1位于341nm处,探测器#2,#3和#4分别在312,305和297nm处.     

台面结构对4H-SiC紫外探测器性能的影响

制备了4种具有不同光窗口台面结构的4H-SiC紫外探测器#1,#2,#3和#4,并分别测试它们的紫外光响应谱.器件制备在4H-SiC同质外延层上,台面为垂直结构,其中探测器#1光窗口区由透明Pt层、p+层、p层、n层和n+衬底组成.在探测器#1的基础上用离子刻蚀的方法分别剥离透明Pt层、透明Pt层和p+层、透明Pt层和层以及p层制备出探测器#2,#3和#4.器件的紫外光响应谱表明,紫外响应率最好的是探测器#2,其次是探测器#4,#1,#3,其中探测器#2比其他类型的探测器响应率高1个数量级;4种类型的探测器峰值响应位置各不相同,其中探测器#1位于341nm处,探测器#2,#3和#4分别在312,305和297nm处.     

Effect of Temperature on the Characteristics of 4H-SiC UV Photodetectors

Semiconductors - The influence exerted by the carrier concentration in the range (1–50) × 1014 cm–3 in n-4H-SiC chemical-vapor deposited (CVD) epitaxial layers on the spectral...     

Ni，Ti/4H-SiC肖特基势垒二极管

采用本实验室生长的4H-SiC外延片,分别用高真空电子束蒸Ni和Ti做肖特基接触金属,Ni合金作欧姆接触,SiO_2绝缘环隔离减小高压电场集边效应等技术,制作出4H-SiC肖特基势垒二极管(SBD)。该器件在室温下反向击穿电压大于600 V,对应的漏电流为2.00×10~(-6)A。对实验结果分析显示,采用Ni和Ti作肖特基势垒的器件的理想因子分别为1.18和1.52,肖特基势垒高度为1.54 eV和1.00 eV。实验表明,该器件具有较好的正向整流特性。     

Pulsed breakdown of 4H-SiC Schottky diodes terminated with a boron-implanted p-n junction

Pulsed reverse current-voltage characteristics have been measured in the breakdown region for 1-kV 4H-SiC Schottky diodes terminated with a boron-implanted p-n junction. It was shown that the dynamic breakdown voltage of the diodes increases as the pulses become shorter. Owing to the homogeneous avalanche formation at the edge of the guard p-n junction and to the high differential resistance in the breakdown region, the diodes sustain without degradation a pulsed reverse voltage substantially exceeding the static breakdown threshold. Characteristic features of the pulsed breakdown are considered in relation to the specific properties of the boron-implanted guard p-n junction.     

I-V characteristics of high-voltage 4H-SiC diodes with a 1.1-eV Schottky barrier

The I-V characteristics of high-voltage 4H-SiC diodes with a Schottky barrier ∼1.1 eV in height are measured and analyzed. The forward I-V characteristics proved to be close to “ideal” in the temperature range of 295–470 K. The reverse I-V characteristics are adequately described by the model of thermionic emission at the voltages to 2 kV in the temperature range of 361–470 K if, additionally, a barrier lowering with an increase in the band bending in the semiconductor is taken into account.