학술논문

SiC power Schottky diodes: industrial development
Document Type
Conference
Source
2001 International Semiconductor Conference. CAS 2001 Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8547) Semiconductor conference Semiconductor Conference, 2001. CAS 2001 Proceedings. International. 2:337-340 vol.2 2001
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Silicon carbide
Schottky diodes
Schottky barriers
Temperature
Breakdown voltage
Fabrication
Contact resistance
Textile industry
Annealing
Electrical resistance measurement
Language
Abstract
The paper describes the results obtained in a trial of the industrial fabrication of silicon carbide power Schottky diodes. The structure technology uses the simple ramp oxide edge termination to minimize field crowding at the edge of the metal contact and high temperature metal annealing to reduce the specific metal-semiconductor resistance. By optimising the Schottky barrier the best diode results obtained for a 10/sup 16/ cm/sup -3/, 3 /spl mu/m thickness 4H n-SiC epilayer are: 3.7 V forward voltage drop at 1000 A/cm/sup 2/, and a 35 /spl mu/A/cm/sup 2/ at an 100 V reverse voltage while the maximum breakdown voltage was around of 300 V.