摘要:
Equipment for a communication system has a semiconductor device formed by integrating a Schottky diode, a MOSFET, a capacitor, and an inductor in a SiC substrate. The SiC substrate has a first multilayer portion and a second multilayer portion provided upwardly in this order. The first multilayer portion is composed of δ-doped layers each containing an n-type impurity (nitrogen) at a high concentration and undoped layers which are alternately stacked. The second multilayer portion is composed of δ - doped layers each containing a p-type impurity (aluminum) at a high concentration and undoped layers which are alternately stacked. Carriers in the δ -doped layers spread out extensively to the undoped layers. Because of a low impurity concentration in each of the undoped layers, scattering by impurity ions is reduced so that a low resistance and a high breakdown voltage are obtained.
摘要:
There are provided a field effect transistor with a high withstand voltage and low loss and a method of manufacturing the same. The field effect transistor includes an n-type substrate 11, an n-type semiconductor layer 12 formed on the n-type substrate 11, a p-type semiconductor layer 13 formed on the n-type semiconductor layer 12, a p-type region 14 embedded in the n-type semiconductor layer 12, an n-type region 15 embedded in the n-type semiconductor layer 12 and the p-type semiconductor layer 13, an n-type source region 16 disposed in the p-type semiconductor layer 13 on its surface side, an insulating layer 17 disposed on the p-type semiconductor layer 13, a gate electrode 18 disposed on the insulating layer 17, a source electrode 19, and a drain electrode 20. The n-type semiconductor layer 12, the p-type semiconductor layer 13, and the p-type region 14 are made of wide-gap semiconductors with a bandgap of at least 2eV, respectively.
摘要:
An inventive semiconductor device is provided with: a silicon carbide substrate 1 ; an n-type high resistance layer 2 ; well regions 3 provided in a surface region of the high resistance layer 2 ; a p + contact region 4 provided within each well region 3 ; a source region 5 provided to laterally surround the p + contact region 4 within each well region 3 ; first source electrodes 8 provided on the source regions 5 and made of nickel; second source electrodes 9 that cover the first source electrodes 8 and that are made of aluminum; a gate insulating film 6 provided on a portion of the high resistance layer 2 sandwiched between the two well regions 3 ; a gate electrode 10 made of aluminum; and an interlayer dielectric film 11 that covers the second source electrodes 9 and the gate electrode 10 and that is made of silicon oxide.
摘要:
An inventive semiconductor device is provided with: a silicon carbide substrate 1 ; an n-type high resistance layer 2 ; well regions 3 provided in a surface region of the high resistance layer 2 ; a p + contact region 4 provided within each well region 3 ; a source region 5 provided to laterally surround the p + contact region 4 within each well region 3 ; first source electrodes 8 provided on the source regions 5 and made of nickel; second source electrodes 9 that cover the first source electrodes 8 and that are made of aluminum; a gate insulating film 6 provided on a portion of the high resistance layer 2 sandwiched between the two well regions 3 ; a gate electrode 10 made of aluminum; and an interlayer dielectric film 11 that covers the second source electrodes 9 and the gate electrode 10 and that is made of silicon oxide.
摘要:
A Schottky diode includes a semiconductor substrate made of 4H-SiC, an epitaxially grown 4H-SiC layer, an ion implantation layer, a Schottky electrode, an ohmic electrode, and an insulative layer made of a thermal oxide film. The Schottky electrode and the insulative layer are not in contact with each other, with a gap being provided therebetween, whereby an altered layer does not occur. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a leak current.
摘要:
An insulated-gate semiconductor element having a high breakdown voltage is provided. The surface of a silicon carbide substrate is etched to form a concave portion. A particle beam, for example an ion beam, is irradiated from above, and a defect layer is formed at least in a bottom surface of the concave portion. The substrate is heated in an oxidation atmosphere, and an oxide film is formed at least on a side surface and the bottom surface of the concave portion. A gate electrode is formed on the oxide film. The oxide film at the bottom surface is thicker than at the side surfaces, so that a high breakdown voltage can be ensured, even when the surface of the silicon carbide layer is a face with which a superior epitaxial layer can be attained, such as the (111) Si-face of β -SiC or the (0001) Si-face of α -SiC.
摘要:
In a semiconductor device of the present invention, the top surface of an n-type silicon carbide layer formed on a silicon carbide substrate is miscut from the (0001) plane in the direction. A gate electrode, a source electrode and other elements are arranged such that in a channel region, the dominating current flows along a miscut direction. In the present invention, a gate insulating film is formed and then heat treatment is performed in an atmosphere containing a group-V element. In this way, the interface state density at the interface between the silicon carbide layer and the gate insulating film is reduced. As a result, the electron mobility becomes higher in a miscut direction A than in the direction perpendicular to the miscut direction A.
摘要:
A gate insulating film which is an oxide layer mainly made of SiO 2 is formed over a silicon carbide substrate by thermal oxidation, and then, a resultant structure is annealed in an inert gas atmosphere in a chamber. Thereafter, the silicon carbide-oxide layered structure is placed in a chamber which has a vacuum pump and exposed to a reduced pressure NO gas atmosphere at a high temperature higher than 1100°C and lower than 1250°C, whereby nitrogen is diffused in the gate insulating film. As a result, a gate insulating film which is a V-group element containing oxide layer, the lower part of which includes a high nitrogen concentration region, and the relative dielectric constant of which is 3.0 or higher, is obtained. The interface state density of an interface region between the V-group element containing oxide layer and the silicon carbide layer decreases.
摘要:
A storage-type (accumulation-type) SiC-MISFET includes a SiC substrate, an n-type drift layer, a p-type well region, an n-type source region, a SiC channel layer which contains an n-type impurity and is a storage-type (accumulation-type) channel layer, a p-type heavily doped contact layer to contact the well layer, a gate insulation film, a gate electrode. The storage-type SiC-MISFET is characterized by a heavily doped layer formed by implanting ions of a p-conductivity type into an upper surface portion of the n-type drift layer at a higher concentration than that in the well region, before the formation of the channel layer. The planar gate SiC-MISFET can be of the vertical or of the horizontal type.
摘要:
A Schottky diode (10) includes a semiconductor substrate (11) made of 4H-SiC, an epitaxially grown 4H-SiC layer (12), an ion implantation layer (13), a Schottky electrode (14), an ohmic electrode (15), and an insulative layer (16) made of a thermal oxide film. The Schottky electrode (14) and the insulative layer (16) are not in contact with each other, with a gap (17) being provided therebetween, whereby an altered layer does not occur. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a leak current.