Ionizing radiation damage effects on GaN devices

SJ Pearton, F Ren, E Patrick, ME Law… - ECS Journal of solid …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Gallium Nitride based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are attractive for use in high
power and high frequency applications, with higher breakdown voltages and two …

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 …

Ion-induced energy pulse mechanism for single-event burnout in high-voltage SiC power MOSFETs and junction barrier Schottky diodes

DR Ball, KF Galloway, RA Johnson… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heavy-ion data suggest that a common mechanism is responsible for single-event burnout
(SEB) in 1200-V power MOSFETs and junction barrier Schottky (JBS) diodes. Similarly …

Effect of well and substrate potential modulation on single event pulse shape in deep submicron CMOS

S DasGupta, AF Witulski, BL Bhuva… - … on Nuclear Science, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulations are used to characterize the single event transient current and voltage
waveforms in deep submicron CMOS integrated circuits. Results indicate that the …

Single-event burnout hardening method and evaluation in SiC power MOSFET devices

JX Bi, Y Wang, X Wu, X Li, J Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a method of single-event burnout (SEB) hardening at high linear energy
transfer (LET) value range is proposed and investigated by the 2-D numerical simulations …

Simulation study on single-event burnout in rated 1.2-kV 4H-SiC super-junction VDMOS

CH Yu, Y Wang, MT Bao, XJ Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the 2-D numerical simulation results of the heavy-ion-induced leakage
current degradation and single-event burnout (SEB) in the rated 1.2-kV silicon-carbide (SiC) …

Single-event burnout hardness for the 4H-SiC trench-gate MOSFETs based on the multi-island buffer layer

Y Wang, M Lin, XJ Li, X Wu, JQ Yang… - … on Electron Devices, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the performance and triggering mechanism of the single-event burnout (SEB)
of a 4H-SiC trench-gate (TG) MOSFET structure are evaluated by the 2-D numerical …

Single event burnout hardening technique for high-voltage pin diodes with field limiting rings termination structure

X Liao, Y Liu, C Xu, J Li, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-voltage pin diodes for space applications are sensitive to single event burnout (SEB),
which may cause the failure of the entire electronic system. This article describes the SEB …

Ensuring the reliability of power electronic devices with regard to terrestrial cosmic radiation

G Soelkner - Microelectronics Reliability, 2016 - Elsevier
Terrestrial cosmic radiation is a significant factor for the reliability of power electronic
devices, for voltage classes that range from about 300 V to beyond 6500 V. As such, cosmic …

Experiment and simulation on degradation and burnout mechanisms of SiC MOSFET under heavy ion irradiation

H Zhang, H Guo, Z Lei, C Peng, Z Zhang… - Chinese …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments and simulation studies on 283 MeV I ion induced single event effects of silicon
carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) were carried …