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Characterization of the effects of nitrogen and hydrogen passivation on SiO2/4H-SiC interface by low temperature conductance measurements 被引量:2

Characterization of the effects of nitrogen and hydrogen passivation on SiO_2/4H-SiC interface by low temperature conductance measurements
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摘要 We investigate the effects of NO annealing and forming gas (FG) annealing on the electrical properties of a SiO2/SiC interface by low-temperature conductance measurements. With nitrogen passivation, the density of interface states (DIT) is significantly reduced in the entire energy range, and the shift of flatband voltage, AVFB, is effectively suppressed to less than 0.4 V. However, very fast states are observed after NO annealing and the response frequencies are higher than 1 MHz at room temperature. After additional FG annealing, the DIT and AVFB are further reduced. The values of the DIT decrease to less than 1011 cm-2 eV- 1 for the energy range of Ec - ET 〉/0.4 eV. It is suggested that the fast states in shallow energy levels originated from the N atoms accumulating at the interface by NO annealing. Though FG annealing has a limited effect on these shallow traps, hydrogen can terminate the residual Si and C dangling bonds corresponding to traps at deep energy levels and improve the interface quality further. It is indicated that NO annealing in conjunction with FG annealing will be a better post-oxidation process method for high performance SiC MOSFETs. We investigate the effects of NO annealing and forming gas (FG) annealing on the electrical properties of a SiO2/SiC interface by low-temperature conductance measurements. With nitrogen passivation, the density of interface states (DIT) is significantly reduced in the entire energy range, and the shift of flatband voltage, AVFB, is effectively suppressed to less than 0.4 V. However, very fast states are observed after NO annealing and the response frequencies are higher than 1 MHz at room temperature. After additional FG annealing, the DIT and AVFB are further reduced. The values of the DIT decrease to less than 1011 cm-2 eV- 1 for the energy range of Ec - ET 〉/0.4 eV. It is suggested that the fast states in shallow energy levels originated from the N atoms accumulating at the interface by NO annealing. Though FG annealing has a limited effect on these shallow traps, hydrogen can terminate the residual Si and C dangling bonds corresponding to traps at deep energy levels and improve the interface quality further. It is indicated that NO annealing in conjunction with FG annealing will be a better post-oxidation process method for high performance SiC MOSFETs.
出处 《Journal of Semiconductors》 EI CAS CSCD 2016年第2期148-154,共7页 半导体学报(英文版)
基金 supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61106080,61275042) the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2013ZX02305)
关键词 SiO2/SiC interface NO annealing forming gas annealing density of interface states SiO2/SiC interface NO annealing forming gas annealing density of interface states
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