Effect of Gate Wet Reoxidation on Reliability and Channel Mobility of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors Fabricated on 4H-SiC(000-1)

The channel mobility and oxide reliability of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) on 4H-SiC (0001) carbon face were investigated. The gate oxide was fabricated by using dry-oxidized film followed by pyrogenic reoxidation annealing (ROA). Significant improvements in the oxide reliability were observed by time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) measurement. Furthermore, the field-effect inversion channel mobility (μFE) of MOSFETs fabricated by using pyrogenic ROA was as high as that of conventional 4H-SiC (0001) MOSFETs having the pyrogenic-oxidized gate oxide. It is suggested that the pyrogenic ROA of dry oxide as a method of gate oxide fabrication satisfies both channel mobility and oxide reliability on 4H-SiC (0001) carbon-face MOSFETs.