Defect engineering in SiC technology for high-voltage power devices

T Kimoto, H Watanabe - Applied Physics Express, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Major features of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices include high blocking voltage, low on-
state loss, and fast switching, compared with those of the Si counterparts. Through recent …

Bias temperature instability in SiC metal oxide semiconductor devices

C Yang, S Wei, D Wang - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Although silicon carbide (SiC) metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs)
are commercially available, bias temperature instability (BTI) defined as shifts in V th in SiC …

Mobility improvement of 4H-SiC (0001) MOSFETs by a three-step process of H2 etching, SiO2 deposition, and interface nitridation

K Tachiki, M Kaneko, T Kimoto - Applied Physics Express, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract 4H-SiC (0001) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) and
MOS capacitors were fabricated by the following procedures: H 2 etching, SiO 2 deposition …

Design and formation of SiC (0001)/SiO2 interfaces via Si deposition followed by low-temperature oxidation and high-temperature nitridation

T Kobayashi, T Okuda, K Tachiki, K Ito… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report an effective approach to reduce defects at a SiC/SiO 2 interface. Since oxidation
of SiC may inevitably lead to defect creation, the idea is to form the interface without …

Removal of near-interface traps at SiO2/4H–SiC (0001) interfaces by phosphorus incorporation

D Okamoto, H Yano, T Hatayama, T Fuyuki - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Effective removal of near-interface traps (NITs) in SiO 2/4 H–SiC (0001) structures through
phosphorus incorporation is demonstrated in this paper. Low-temperature capacitance …

Improved channel mobility in 4H-SiC MOSFETs by boron passivation

D Okamoto, M Sometani, S Harada… - IEEE Electron …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose another process for fabricating 4H-SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect
transistors (MOSFETs) with high channel mobility. The B atoms were introduced into a SiO …

Characterization of Transient Gate Oxide Trapping in SiC MOSFETs Using Fast Techniques

M Gurfinkel, HD Xiong, KP Cheung… - … on Electron Devices, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Threshold voltage and drain current instabilities in state-of-the-art 4H-SiC MOSFETs with
thermal as-grown SiO 2 and NO-annealed gate oxides have been studied using fast IV …

[HTML][HTML] High mobility 4H-SiC (0001) transistors using alkali and alkaline earth interface layers

DJ Lichtenwalner, L Cheng, S Dhar, A Agarwal… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Alkali (Rb and Cs) and alkaline earth (Ca, Sr, and Ba) elements have been investigated as
interface passivation materials for metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors …

Formation of high-quality SiC (0001)/SiO2 structures by excluding oxidation process with H2 etching before SiO2 deposition and high-temperature N2 annealing

K Tachiki, M Kaneko, T Kobayashi… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We formed SiC/SiO 2 structures by various procedures that excluded an oxidation
process. We found that a SiC/SiO 2 interface with a low interface state density near the …

[HTML][HTML] Electrical characterization of amorphous Al2O3 dielectric films on n-type 4H-SiC

RY Khosa, EB Thorsteinsson, M Winters, N Rorsman… - Aip Advances, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the electrical properties of Al 2 O 3 films grown on 4H-SiC by successive
thermal oxidation of thin Al layers at low temperatures (200 C-300 C). MOS capacitors made …