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http://dx.doi.org/10.7471/ikeee.2018.22.4.916

4H-SiC Curvature VDMOSFET with 3.3kV Breakdown Voltage  

Kim, Tae-Hong (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Sogang University)
Jeong, Chung-Bu (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Sogang University)
Goh, Jin-Young (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Sogang University)
Kim, Kwang-Soo (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Sogang University)
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Journal of IKEEE / v.22, no.4, 2018 , pp. 916-921 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we analyzed the power MOSFET devices for high voltage and high current operation. 4H-SiC was used instead of Si to improve the static characteristics of the device. Since 4H-SiC has a high critical electric field due to wide band gap, 4H-SiC is more advantageous than Si in high voltage and high current operation. In the conventional VDMOSFET structure using 4H-SiC, the breakdown voltage is limited due to the electric field crowding at the edge of the p-base region. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a Curvature VDMOSFET structure that improves the breakdown voltage and the static characteristics by reducing the electric field crowding by giving curvature to the edge of the p-base region. The static characteristics of conventional VDMOSFET and curvature VDMOSFET are compared and analyzed through TCAD simulation. The Curvature VDMOSFET has a breakdown voltage of 68.6% higher than that of the conventional structure without increasing on-resistance.
Keywords
4H-SiC; VDMOSFET; breakdown voltage; electric field crowding; reach-through;
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