Abstract:
A high quality silicon carbide epitaxial wafer using a p-type silicon carbide single crystal substrate of low resistivity. The silicon carbide epitaxial wafer includes a p-type 4H—SiC single crystal substrate that has a first main surface having an off angle with respect to (0001) plane, and has a resistivity of less than 0.4 Ωcm, and a silicon carbide epitaxial layer that is disposed on the first main surface of the p-type 4H—SiC single crystal substrate, in which an off direction of the off angle is the direction.
Abstract:
To provide silicon carbide epitaxial wafer in which occurrence of giant step bunchings (GSBs) caused by basal plane dislocations (BPDs) that occur during hydrogen etching is suppressed on low off-angle silicon carbide substrate to decrease surface defect density of epitaxially grown layer to allow formation of silicon carbide semiconductor device having high reliability, method for manufacturing the wafer, and apparatus for manufacturing the wafer, and silicon carbide semiconductor device having the wafer.A silicon carbide epitaxial wafer of the present invention is such that epitaxially grown layer is disposed on silicon carbide substrate which has α-type crystal structure and in which (0001) Si face is tilted at greater than 0° and less than 5°, wherein surface defect density of the epitaxially grown layer based on giant step bunching caused by basal plane dislocation on substrate surface of the silicon carbide substrate is ≦20/cm2.
Abstract:
A destructive breakdown mode that leads to the destruction of a device is suppressed, in the case where a gallium nitride-based high electron mobility transistor is used as a power device. A diode is connected in antiparallel to a HEMT, and this antiparallel connected diode is designed such that an avalanche breakdown occurs therein before the drain-source voltage, which is the difference between the drain potential applied to a drain electrode and the source potential applied to a source electrode, exceeds the withstand voltage of the HEMT.
Abstract:
A silicon carbide epitaxial wafer (10) of the present invention is a silicon carbide epitaxial wafer including: a silicon carbide substrate (1) and a silicon carbide layer (2) provided on a first principal plane (1A) of the silicon carbide substrate (1) and having a film thickness of 100 μm or more, wherein a warpage amount of the silicon carbide epitaxial wafer is −20 μm or more and 20 μm or less.