Defect engineering in SiC technology for high-voltage power devices

T Kimoto, H Watanabe - Applied Physics Express, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Major features of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices include high blocking voltage, low on-
state loss, and fast switching, compared with those of the Si counterparts. Through recent …

Review of silicon carbide power devices and their applications

X She, AQ Huang, O Lucia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) power devices have been investigated extensively in the past two
decades, and there are many devices commercially available now. Owing to the intrinsic …

Review of silicon carbide processing for power MOSFET

C Langpoklakpam, AC Liu, KH Chu, LH Hsu, WC Lee… - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Owing to the superior properties of silicon carbide (SiC), such as higher breakdown voltage,
higher thermal conductivity, higher operating frequency, higher operating temperature, and …

High-voltage SiC power devices for improved energy efficiency

T Kimoto - Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Silicon carbide (SiC) power devices significantly outperform the well-established silicon (Si)
devices in terms of high breakdown voltage, low power loss, and fast switching. This review …

Silicon carbide and diamond for high temperature device applications

M Willander, M Friesel, Q Wahab… - Journal of Materials …, 2006 - Springer
The physical and chemical properties of wide bandgap semiconductors silicon carbide and
diamond make these materials an ideal choice for device fabrication for applications in …

Reliability and performance limitations in SiC power devices

R Singh - Microelectronics reliability, 2006 - Elsevier
Despite silicon carbide's (SiC's) high breakdown electric field, high thermal conductivity and
wide bandgap, it faces certain reliability challenges when used to make conventional power …

Current status and perspectives of ultrahigh-voltage SiC power devices

T Kimoto, Y Yonezawa - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent progress in the SiC material and ultrahigh-voltage devices is reviewed. Regarding
the material issues, fast epitaxial growth of high-purity epitaxial layers and reduction of basal …

Ultrahigh-voltage SiC pin diodes with improved forward characteristics

N Kaji, H Niwa, J Suda, T Kimoto - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) pin diodes having five different n--layer (i-layer) thicknesses from 48 to
268 μm are fabricated. The forward characteristics of SiC pin diodes are significantly …

270 kVA solid state transformer based on 10 kV SiC power devices

T Zhao, L Yang, J Wang… - 2007 IEEE Electric Ship …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advancement of semiconductor technology, solid state transformer (SST) with high
voltage fast switching SiC power devices is becoming a valid option to replace the …

Demonstration of the first 10-kV 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes

JH Zhao, P Alexandrov, X Li - IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter reports the demonstration of the first 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diode (SBD) blocking
over 10 kV based on 115-μm n-type epilayers doped to 5.6× 10/sup 14/cm/sup-3/through the …