期刊
ENERGIES
卷 15, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en15030677
关键词
gallium nitride; MIS-Gate; charges; alumina; traps; threshold voltage; recovery; normally-off
资金
- French national program Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir IRT Nanoelec [ANR-10-AIRT-05]
This study presents an analytical model for investigating the evolution of threshold voltage in MIS-GATE transistors fabricated on GaN-silicon substrate. The model allows for the extraction of different trap energy levels, which have been found to be well correlated with impurity and vacancy sites in GaN epitaxy.
Today, wide bandgap (WBG) GaN semiconductors are considered the future, allowing the improvement of power transistors. The main advantage of GaN is the presence of two-dimensional electron gas (2Deg) typically used as a conduction layer in normally-on and normally-off transistors. Concerning the normally-off family, several solutions are proposed. Among these, one of the most promising is the MIS-Gate technology that features a gate recess architecture allowing the semiconductor to physically cut off the 2Deg and drastically decrease gate-source leakage currents. The Vth relaxation characteristic, after voltage stress, has been investigated. It has been shown that the main impact is due to charges close to the gate dielectric/GaN interface, precisely dwelling within the dielectric or the GaN epitaxy. This work provides an analytical model of the Vth evolution of these MIS-GATE (metal insulator semiconductor gate) transistors fabricated on GaN-silicon substrate. This model allows the extraction of different trap energy levels from a temporary threshold voltage (Vth) shift after 650 V stress. Based on this method, it is possible to identify up to four different trap energy levels. By comparing state of the art methods, we show that these obtained energy levels are well correlated with either magnesium and carbon impurity or Ga and/or N vacancy sites in the GaN epitaxy.
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