4.6 Article

A High-Performance 4H-SiC JFET With Reverse Recovery Capability and Low Switching Loss

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume 68, Issue 10, Pages 5022-5028

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3101749

Keywords

Gate charge; gate-drain capacitance; reverse recovery; silicon carbide (SiC) junction field-effect transistor (JFET); switching loss

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation of China [61974015]
  2. Key Research and Development Project of Science and Technology Plan of Sichuan Province [2021YFG0139]
  3. Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices of China [KFJJ201806]

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A novel high-performance 1700-V 4H-SiC JFET with reverse recovery capability and low switching loss is proposed in this study. By splitting the gate region and integrating a Schottky barrier diode, the device shows improvements in ON-resistance, capacitance, charge, switching loss, and power consumption. Compared with commercial SiC devices, the proposed JFET demonstrates better reverse recovery performance and reduced switching loss.
A novel high-performance 1700-V 4H-Silicon carbide (SiC) junction field-effect transistor (JFET) with reverse recovery capability and low switching loss is proposed in this article. As for the proposed 4H-SiC JFET, the gate region of the conventional 4H-SiC JFET is split into two segments, one of which is replaced by the source. A Schottky barrier diode (SBD) is integrated in the sidewall of the channel region, which greatly improves the performances of the 4H-SiC JFET. Compared with the conventional 4H-SiC JFET, the numerical simulation results show that the specific ON-resistance (RON, sp), gate-drain capacitance (CGD), and gate-drain charge (Qgd) of the proposed 4H- SiC JFET are reduced by 25.57%, 99.96%, and 72.91%, respectively. The switching loss is reduced by about 91%, and the average gate drive power consumption is reduced by more than 36% while the frequency range is from 10 to 400 kHz. The results also demonstrate that the proposed device has good reverse recovery performance and reduces switching loss, compared with the current commercial SiC devices.

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