In this article,the design,fabrication and characterization of silicon carbide(SiC)complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor(CMOS)-based integrated circuits(ICs)are presented.A metal interconnect strategy is proposed to...In this article,the design,fabrication and characterization of silicon carbide(SiC)complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor(CMOS)-based integrated circuits(ICs)are presented.A metal interconnect strategy is proposed to fabricate the fundamental N-channel MOS(NMOS)and P-channel MOS(PMOS)devices that are required for the CMOS circuit configuration.Based on the mainstream 6-inch SiC wafer processing technology,the simultaneous fabrication of SiC CMOS ICs and power MOSFET is realized.Fundamental gates,such as inverter and NAND gates,are fabricated and tested.The measurement results show that the inverter and NAND gates function well.The calculated low-to-high delay(low-to-high output transition)and high-to-low delay(high-to-low output transition)are 49.9 and 90 ns,respectively.展开更多
文摘In this article,the design,fabrication and characterization of silicon carbide(SiC)complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor(CMOS)-based integrated circuits(ICs)are presented.A metal interconnect strategy is proposed to fabricate the fundamental N-channel MOS(NMOS)and P-channel MOS(PMOS)devices that are required for the CMOS circuit configuration.Based on the mainstream 6-inch SiC wafer processing technology,the simultaneous fabrication of SiC CMOS ICs and power MOSFET is realized.Fundamental gates,such as inverter and NAND gates,are fabricated and tested.The measurement results show that the inverter and NAND gates function well.The calculated low-to-high delay(low-to-high output transition)and high-to-low delay(high-to-low output transition)are 49.9 and 90 ns,respectively.
