Radiation damage in wide and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors

SJ Pearton, A Aitkaliyeva, M Xian, F Ren… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The wide bandgap semiconductors SiC and GaN are already commercialized as power
devices that are used in the automotive, wireless, and industrial power markets, but their …

Radiation effects in algan/gan hemts

DM Fleetwood, EX Zhang, RD Schrimpf… - … on Nuclear Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview is presented of displacement damage (DD) effects, total-ionizing-dose (TID)
effects, and single-event effects in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) …

Radiation damage in GaN/AlGaN and SiC electronic and photonic devices

SJ Pearton, X Xia, F Ren, MAJ Rasel… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The wide bandgap semiconductors SiC and GaN are commercialized for power electronics
and for visible to UV light-emitting diodes in the case of the GaN/InGaN/AlGaN materials …

A Brief Review of Single-Event Burnout Failure Mechanisms and Design Tolerances of Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs

CA Grome, W Ji - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Radiation hardening of power MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors)
is of the highest priority for sustaining high-power systems in the space radiation …

Effects of breakdown voltage on single-event burnout tolerance of high-voltage SiC power MOSFETs

DR Ball, KF Galloway, RA Johnson… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ion-and terrestrial neutron-induced single-event burnout (SEB) data indicate that a thicker,
more lightly doped epitaxial (epi) region significantly increases the threshold at which ion …

Impact of terrestrial neutrons on the reliability of SiC VD-MOSFET technologies

C Martinella, RG Alía, R Stark… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accelerated terrestrial neutron irradiations were performed on different commercial SiC
power MOSFETs with planar, trench, and double-trench architectures. The results were used …

Radiation damage in the ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor Ga2O3

X Xia, JS Li, R Sharma, F Ren, MAJ Rasel… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a review of the published experimental and simulation radiation damage results
in Ga 2 O 3. All of the polytypes of Ga 2 O 3 are expected to show similar radiation …

Impact of varied buffer layer designs on single-event response of 1.2-kV SiC power MOSFETs

J Lu, J Liu, X Tian, H Chen, Y Tang… - … on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the single-event response of the 1.2-kV silicon-carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs
with varied buffer layer designs is investigated by the 2-D numerical simulations. The …

Heavy-ion microbeam studies of single-event leakage current mechanism in SiC VD-MOSFETs

C Martinella, T Ziemann, R Stark… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heavy-ion microbeams are employed for probing the radiation-sensitive regions in
commercial silicon carbide (SiC) vertical double-diffused power (VD)-MOSFETs with …

First-principles approach to closing the 10–100 eV gap for charge-carrier thermalization in semiconductors

DO Nielsen, CG Van de Walle, ST Pantelides… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Since the 1960s and the first observations of radiation-induced disruption of electronic
devices in space, the study of the effects of ionizing radiation on electronics has grown into …