Surface Effects of Passivation within Mo/4H-SiC Schottky Diodes through MOS Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 963 ◽  
pp. 511-515
Author(s):  
A. Benjamin Renz ◽  
Vishal Ajit Shah ◽  
Oliver Vavasour ◽  
Yeganeh Bonyadi ◽  
G.W.C Baker ◽  
...  

Passivation treatments applied prior to Mo metallisation on Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky rectifier and metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor (MOSCAP) structures are studied. A control sample and two treatments, comprising of an O2 oxidation and a phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) deposition, were studied. Electrical characterisation results show that P2O5 treatment improves the homogeneity of the diodes, with the ideality factor reducing to 1.02 and the leakage current reducing by three orders of magnitude to 2×10-5 A/cm2. Furthermore, the SBH was lowered by 0.11 eV and the variance of all the P2O5 treated Schottky characteristics over the batch reduced. Characterisation by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that the stoichiometry, the Si:C ratio, of the SiC below the contact increased from 0.93:1 before treatment to 0.97:1 after P2O5 treatment.

1989 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.N. Kumar ◽  
G. Chaussemy ◽  
A. Laugier ◽  
B. Canut ◽  
M. Charbonnier

AbstractAngle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy characterization of the surface region of high-dose Sb+ ion implanted silicon, after rapid thermal treatments over various temperatures, is reported. The results obtained are compared with the Rutherford backscattering data and the capacitance-voltage measurements on the metal-oxide-semiconductor mesa structures built on them. Rapid anneal at 1100 °C of the 1.4×1016 Sb+/cm2 samples showed an anomalous deep oxygen diffusion inside the implanted region.


Author(s):  
Takato Nakanuma ◽  
Yu Iwakata ◽  
Arisa Watanabe ◽  
Takuji Hosoi ◽  
Takuma Kobayashi ◽  
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Abstract Nitridation of SiO2/4H-SiC(1120) interfaces with post-oxidation annealing in an NO ambient (NO-POA) and its impact on the electrical properties were investigated. Sub-nm-resolution nitrogen depth profiling at the interfaces was conducted by using a scanning x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy microprobe. The results showed that nitrogen atoms were incorporated just at the interface and that interface nitridation proceeded much faster than at SiO2/SiC(0001) interfaces, resulting in a 2.3 times higher nitrogen concentration. Electrical characterizations of metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors were conducted through capacitance-voltage (C–V) measurements in the dark and under illumination with ultraviolet light to evaluate the electrical defects near the conduction and valence band edges and those causing hysteresis and shifting of the C–V curves. While all of these defects were passivated with the progress of the interface nitridation, excessive nitridation resulted in degradation of the MOS capacitors. The optimal conditions for NO-POA are discussed on the basis of these experimental findings.


2011 ◽  
Vol 679-680 ◽  
pp. 338-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dai Okamoto ◽  
Hiroshi Yano ◽  
Shinya Kotake ◽  
Tomoaki Hatayama ◽  
Takashi Fuyuki

We report on electrical and physical investigations aimed to clarify the mechanisms behind the high channel mobility of 4H-SiC metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors processed with POCl3 annealing. By low-temperature capacitance–voltage analysis, we found that the shallow interface traps are effectively removed by P incorporation. Using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we found that the three-fold coordinated P atoms exist at the oxide/4H-SiC interface. The overall results suggest that P atoms directly remove the Si–Si bonds and thus eliminate the near-interface traps.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (44) ◽  
pp. 12079-12085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Regoutz ◽  
Gregor Pobegen ◽  
Thomas Aichinger

SiC has immense potential as the semiconductor for future high power metal–oxide–semiconductor devices. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to systematically study the 4H-SiC/SiO2 interface after high temperature nitridation treatments in a variety of atmospheres.


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