학술논문

10-kV Ga2O3 Charge-Balance Schottky Rectifier Operational at 200 °C
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Electron Device Letters IEEE Electron Device Lett. Electron Device Letters, IEEE. 44(8):1268-1271 Aug, 2023
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Gallium
Schottky diodes
Anodes
Schottky barriers
Power electronics
Thermal stability
Temperature measurement
ultra-wide bandgap
gallium oxide
Schottky diode
nickel oxide
RESURF
high voltage
Language
ISSN
0741-3106
1558-0563
Abstract
This work demonstrates a lateral Ga2O3 Schottky barrier diode (SBD) with a breakdown voltage (BV) over 10 kV, the highest BV reported in Ga2O3 devices to date. The 10 kV SBD shows good thermal stability up to 200°C, which is among the highest operational temperatures reported in multi-kilovolt Ga2O3 devices. The key device design for achieving such high BV is a reduced surface field (RESURF) structure based on the p-type nickel oxide (NiO), which balances the depletion charges in the n-Ga2O3 channel at high voltage. At BV, the charge-balanced Ga2O3 SBD shows an average lateral electric field (E-field) over 4.7 MV/cm at 25 °C and over 3.5 MV/cm at 200°C, both of which exceed the critical E-field of GaN and SiC. The 10 kV SBD shows a specific on-resistance of $0.27~\Omega \cdot $ cm2 and a turn-on voltage of 1 V; at 200°C, the former doubles and the latter reduces to 0.7 V. These results suggest the good potential of Ga2O3 devices for medium- and high-voltage, high-temperature power applications.