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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 54, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/abe8fe
Keywords
diamond; MOSFET; power electronics
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- French Ministry of Research
- European Community Horizon 2020 Programme [H2020-LCE2014-1.640947, H2020/2014-2020]
- Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) [101007868]
- European Union
- Clean Sky 2 JU
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This paper introduces the concept of deep-depletion diamond metal-oxide-semiconductor FETs (D3MOSFETs), discusses the design, fabrication, and performance demonstration, and explores the main challenges in developing diamond power devices.
Diamond has been explored to develop prototype field-effect transistors (FETs). At present, various architectures that are suited to high temperature and high-radiation environments are still under investigation for power electronics applications. Recently, the deep-depletion diamond metal-oxide-semiconductor FET (D3MOSFET) concept has been introduced and demonstrated to be a good candidate for designing efficient diamond MOSFETs. In this paper, a general introduction to the concept of deep depletion is given. The key issues concerning the design and fabrication of this kind of diamond MOSFET are then described and discussed in terms of quasi static performance (the 'on' and 'off' states). A demonstration of the working regimes of a fabricated normally-on D3MOSFET is described, which reached a critical field of at least 5.4 MV cm(-1) at a drain-source bias of -175 V, without electric field relaxation structures. The minimum on-state resistance was measured and found to be R-ON,R-S = 50 m omega cm(2) at 250 C. Finally, the D3MOSFET is contextualized as part of a global research effort to develop diamond power FETs. Some of the main challenges regarding the fabrication of competitive D3MOSFETs and, more generally, diamond power devices are discussed.
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