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Japanese group reduces defects in SiC transistors
A RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering, has found a way to reduce defects in silicon carbide devices to improve performance.
SiC devices offer the potential for lower energy loss than conventional silicon devices, but SiC transistors suffer from high resistance and low reliability, mainly due to defects formed at the interface between SiC gate dielectric fi lm.
Such defects, caused by impurities and atomic excess or defi ciency at the interface, need to be reduced to improve the performance.
The Tokyo University group led by Koji Kita found that the density of interface defects is signifi cantly reduced by employing reaction conditions where the by product carbon is ejected as carbon monoxide when creating the gate dielectric fi lm.
The group achieved the lowest defect density in a metal-oxide-semiconductor test structure employing these conditions. This technique provides a high quality
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SiC interface without any extra processes such as addition of nitrogen-containing gases, assuring the easy industrial application of this method.
This technique is expected to improve the performance and accelerate the spread of SiC power devices, contributing to energy saving in a variety of applications, including electric power transmission, electric vehicles, and factory machines.
The work was published as “Fabrication of SiO2
/4H-SiC (0001) Interface with
Nearly-Ideal Capacitance-Voltage Characteristics by Thermal Oxidation” by Richard Heihachiro Kikuchi and Koji Kita, in Applied Physics Letters 105, 032106 (2014).
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