Electron trapping effects in SiC Schottky diodes: Review and comment

JR Nicholls - Microelectronics Reliability, 2021 - Elsevier
SiC devices exhibit a number of detrimental second order effects which are caused by
electrically active traps. The majority of studies into traps in SiC devices have been for SiC …

SiC Schottky diodes for harsh environment space applications

P Godignon, X Jordà, M Vellvehi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on the fabrication technology and packaging strategy for 300-V 5-A
silicon carbide Schottky diodes with a wide temperature operation range capability (between …

A review of eutectic Au-Ge solder joints

A Larsson, TA Tollefsen, OM Løvvik… - … Materials Transactions A, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Gold-germanium (Au-Ge) joints have been part of the electronics industry since the
birth of the solid state transistor. Today they find their role as a reliable joining technology …

Long term durability assessment of Schottky bypass diodes in photovoltaic modules under high temperature reverse bias operation

KP Rane, N Shiradkar - Solar Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Even though the bypass diodes in the PV module spend most of their time in the reverse
biased condition and often at elevated temperatures, there's no systematic test/methodology …

Performance evaluation of WC alloy Schottky contact for 4H-SiC diodes

Y Wang, KH Chen, MT Bao, XX Fei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate Schottky diodes with pure W and WC alloy metal electrodes.
The electrical characteristics of samples were analyzed by comparing the current density …

Fabrication and characterization of a silicon carbide based schottky barrier diode

RS Shekhawat, SM Islam, S Kumar, S Singh… - Journal of Electronic …, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we report the fabrication and characterization of a Schottky diode containing a
metal–semiconductor Schottky junction. The metal–semiconductor Schottky contact was …

Study of 4H-SiC JBS diodes fabricated with tungsten Schottky barrier

M Berthou, P Godignon, J Montserrat, J Millán… - Journal of electronic …, 2011 - Springer
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 …

Reliability of Quasi-vertical GaN on Silicon Schottky Barrier Diodes With SiO Passivation Layer Under On-State Stress Bias

YX Lin, DS Chao, JH Liang, YL Shen… - … on Electron Devices, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
ON-state stress induced device degradation of gallium nitride quasivertical Schottky barrier
diode (SBD) with SiO $ _ {\text {2}} $ passivation layer was investigated in this article. The …

Analysis of the inhomogeneous barrier and phase composition of W/4H-SiC Schottky contacts formed at different annealing temperatures

SX Dong, Y Bai, YD Tang, H Chen, XL Tian… - Chinese …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The electrical characteristics of W/4H-SiC Schottky contacts formed at different annealing
temperatures have been measured by using current–voltage–temperatures (I–V–T) and …

Structural analysis of SiC Schottky diodes failure mechanism under current overload

J León, M Berthou, X Perpiñà, V Banu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
2 kV–10 A tungsten Schottky diodes (W-SBD) have been aged and tested at limit under
current overload (surge current pulses) to determine their structural weakest spots. All …