Recent review on failures in silicon carbide power MOSFETs

DK Ngwashi, LV Phung - Microelectronics Reliability, 2021 - Elsevier
In every new technology, the understanding of its failure mechanism is essential to ensure
reliability. In this paper an overview on some state-of-the-art characterization methods of 4H …

The trends of in situ focused ion beam technology: toward preparing transmission electron microscopy lamella and devices at the atomic scale

Z Zhang, W Wang, Z Dong, X Yang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The increased complexity and scaling down of electronic devices lead to great challenges in
extracting an interesting nanoscale area of the device for transmission electron microscopy …

A Critical review on reliability and short circuit robustness of silicon carbide power MOSFETs

S Sreejith, J Ajayan, SB Devasenapati, B Sivasankari… - Silicon, 2023 - Springer
Superior electrical and physical properties of SiC (Silicon Carbide) make them ideal for
various high voltage, high frequency and high power electronic applications. When …

Measurements and Review of Failure Mechanisms and Reliability Constraints of 4H-SiC Power MOSFETs Under Short Circuit Events

R Yu, S Jahdi, O Alatise… - … on Device and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reliability of the SiC MOSFET has always been a factor hindering the device application,
especially under high voltage and high current conditions, such as in the short circuit events …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation on safe-operating-area degradation and failure modes of sic mosfets under repetitive short-circuit conditions

Z Zhang, L Liang, H Fei - Power Electronic Devices and Components, 2023 - Elsevier
The safe operating area is an operating area with high reliability for SiC MOSFET, and its
degradation may cause power electronic system failure. The safe-operating-area …

[HTML][HTML] Electrothermal power cycling of 15 kV SiC PiN diodes

C Shen, S Jahdi, SP Munagala, N Simpson… - Microelectronics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Through extensive experimental measurements for the static and dynamic characteristics,
the commercially available 15 kV Silicon Carbide (SiC) PiN diode are evaluated by power …

Failure mechanism analysis of 1.2 kV SiC MOSFETs under low-temperature storage, power cycling, and short-circuit interactions

P Wang, Y Chen, X Zhu, H He… - IEEE Journal of Emerging …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The silicon carbide (SiC) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs)
under real-world operating conditions contends with multistress scenarios, involving …

Short-circuit robustness of retrograde channel doping 1.2 kV SiC MOSFETs

PD Reigosa, N Schulz, R Minamisawa - Microelectronics Reliability, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the performance of 1.2-kV SiC power MOSFETs having a retrograde channel
doping profile is compared to a conventional 1.2-kV SiC power MOSFET through TCAD …

Short-circuit protection scheme with efficient soft turn-off for power modules

H Du, Y Bayarsaikhan, I Omura - Microelectronics Reliability, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increased current density of power semiconductor devices, their short-circuit
reliability becomes a critical concern, especially prominent in SiC MOSFETs, exhibiting a …

A mitigation strategy for the short-circuit degradation in SiC MOSFETs

H Du, F Iannuzzo - 2020 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demand for highly reliable SiC MOSFETs is growing in the field applications, especially
considering the short-circuit conditions. With the development of faster protection, short …