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Effect of interface and bulk charges on the breakdown of nitrided gate oxide on 4H-SiC
Document Type
Conference
Source
2021 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2021 IEEE International. :1-4 Mar, 2021
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
MOSFET
Limiting
Electric breakdown
Capacitance-voltage characteristics
Logic gates
Stability analysis
Reliability
4H-SiC
nitrided oxide
breakdown
Language
ISSN
1938-1891
Abstract
The disadvantage of 4H-SiC/SiO 2 compared to the Si/SiO 2 interface is the high trap density limiting the channel mobility and gate oxide stability and often leads to early failure in power MOSFETs. One important process improvement is the nitridation of the oxide. In this work, we investigate techniques to characterize and quantify the nitridation effect, validating the better performance after NO nitridation due to passivation of near interface oxide traps (NIOTs) and bulk charges as well as an improved gate oxide reliability.