Effect of boron diffusion on the high-voltage behavior of 6H-SiC p(+)nn(+) structures - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Applied Physics Année : 1996

Effect of boron diffusion on the high-voltage behavior of 6H-SiC p(+)nn(+) structures

A. A. Lebedev
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A. N. Andreev
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N. S. Savkina
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V. E. Chelnokov
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M. G. Rastegaeva
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A. L. Syrkin
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Résumé

Boron diffusion can be used to compensate the n-type layer of a p(+)nn(+) 6H-silicon carbide structure in order to increase its high-voltage capabilities. Measurements under reverse biases for a current range from 10 to 500 mu A show that this process is very efficient for working temperatures about 300 K. Indeed we obtained a voltage of 670 V for a reverse current of 10 mu A instead of the 120 V calculated for a structure without boron diffusion. Nevertheless, the breakdown voltage decreases rapidly when the temperature increases. Capacitance measurements show that the measured doping level in the n-type layer evolves in the same way as the temperature (it ranges from 10(13) cm(-3) at 300 K to 10(17) cm(-3) at 500 K). A great concentration of boron seems to be responsible for this doping variation with temperature. Admittance spectroscopy reveals the presence of D centers at 0.62 eV above the valence band associated to boron at concentration similar or superior to nitrogen concentration in the n-type layer. The increase of the doping level with the temperature is responsible for this decrease of the breakdown voltage.
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hal-00141621 , version 1 (13-04-2007)

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S. Ortolland, Christophe Raynaud, Jean-Pierre Chante, A. A. Lebedev, A. N. Andreev, et al.. Effect of boron diffusion on the high-voltage behavior of 6H-SiC p(+)nn(+) structures. Journal of Applied Physics, 1996, 80 (9), pp.5464-5468. ⟨hal-00141621⟩
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