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 …

Research Progress on Radiation Damage Mechanism of SiC MOSFETs Under Various Irradiation Conditions

Q Zeng, Z Yang, X Wang, S Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous development and progress of science and technology, the third-
generation semiconductor power devices (SPDs) represented by SiC MOSFETs have …

Space radiation effects on SiC power device reliability

JM Lauenstein, MC Casey, RL Ladbury… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heavy-ion radiation can result in silicon carbide power device degradation and/or
catastrophic failure. Test procedures and data interpretation must consider the impact that …

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 …

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 …

Opportunities in single event effects in radiation-exposed SiC and GaN power electronics

SJ Pearton, A Haque, A Khachatrian… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiation effects have a critical impact on the reliability of SiC and GaN power electronics
and must be understood for space and avionics applications involving exposure to various …

Gate damages induced in SiC power MOSFETs during heavy-ion irradiation—Part II

C Abbate, G Busatto, D Tedesco… - … on Electron Devices, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the results of a 2-D finite element simulation study of the gate damages
induced by heavy-ion irradiation in SiC power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy-ion induced single event effects and latent damages in SiC power MOSFETs

C Martinella, P Natzke, RG Alía, Y Kadi… - Microelectronics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The advantages of silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs make this technology attractive for
space, avionics and high-energy accelerator applications. However, the current commercial …

[HTML][HTML] Reversible total ionizing dose effects in NiO/Ga2O3 heterojunction rectifiers

JS Li, CC Chiang, X Xia, S Stepanoff… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
NiO/Ga 2 O 3 heterojunction rectifiers were exposed to 1 Mrad fluences of Co-60 γ-rays
either with or without reverse biases. While there is a small component of Compton electrons …

High-energy proton and atmospheric-neutron irradiations of SiC power MOSFETs: SEB study and impact on channel and drift resistances

C Martinella, S Race, R Stark, RG Alia… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accelerated single event burnout (SEB) tests with 200 MeV protons and atmospheric
neutrons were performed for commercial silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs with different …