Heavy-Ion Microbeam Studies of Single-Event Leakage Current Mechanism in SiC VD-MOSFETs

Heavy-ion microbeams are employed for probing the radiation-sensitive regions in commercial silicon carbide (SiC) vertical double-diffused power (VD)-MOSFETs with micrometer accuracy. By scanning the beam spot over the die, a spatial periodicity was observed in the leakage current degradation, refle...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on nuclear science 2020-07, Vol.67 (7), p.1381-1389
Hauptverfasser: Martinella, C., Ziemann, T., Stark, R., Tsibizov, A., Voss, K. O., Alia, R. G., Kadi, Y., Grossner, U., Javanainen, A.
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Zusammenfassung:Heavy-ion microbeams are employed for probing the radiation-sensitive regions in commercial silicon carbide (SiC) vertical double-diffused power (VD)-MOSFETs with micrometer accuracy. By scanning the beam spot over the die, a spatial periodicity was observed in the leakage current degradation, reflecting the striped structure of the power MOSFET investigated. Two different mechanisms were observed for degradation. At low drain bias (gate and source grounded), only the gate-oxide (at the JFET or neck region) is contributing in the ion-induced leakage current. For exposures at drain-source bias voltages higher than a specific threshold, additional higher drain leakage current is observed in the p-n junction region. This provides useful insights into the understanding of basic phenomena of single-event effects in SiC power devices.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/TNS.2020.3002729