Recently,β-Ga_(2)O_(3),an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor,has shown great potential to be used in power devices blessed with its unique material properties.For instance,the measured average critical field of the ver...Recently,β-Ga_(2)O_(3),an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor,has shown great potential to be used in power devices blessed with its unique material properties.For instance,the measured average critical field of the vertical Schottky barrier diode(SBD)based onβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) has reached 5.45 MV/cm,and no device in any material has measured a greater before.However,the high electric field of theβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) SBD makes it challenging to manage the electric field distribution and leakage current.Here,we showβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) junction barrier Schottky diode with NiO p-well floating field rings(FFRs).For the central anode,we filled a circular trench array with NiO to reduce the surface field under the Schottky contact between them to reduce the leakage current of the device.For the anode edge,experimental results have demonstrated that the produced NiO/β-Ga_(2)O_(3) heterojunction FFRs enable the spreading of the depletion region,thereby mitigating the crowding effect of electric fields at the anode edge.Additionally,simulation results indicated that the p-NiO field plate structure designed at the edges of the rings and central anode can further reduce the electric field.This work verified the feasibility of the heterojunction FFRs inβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) devices based on the experimental findings and provided ideas for managing the electric field ofβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) SBD.展开更多
WT8.BZ]A new quasi 2-dimensional analytical approach to predicting the ring voltage,edge peak fields and optimal spacing of the planar junction with a single floating field limiting ring structure has been proposed,ba...WT8.BZ]A new quasi 2-dimensional analytical approach to predicting the ring voltage,edge peak fields and optimal spacing of the planar junction with a single floating field limiting ring structure has been proposed,based on the cylindrical symmetric solution and the critical field concept.The effects of the spacing and reverse voltage on the ring junction voltage and edge peak field profiles have been analyzed.The optimal spacing and the maximum breakdown voltage of the structure have also been obtained.The analytical results are in excellent agreement with that obtained from the 2-D device simulator,MEDICI and the reported result,which proves the presented model valid.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61925110,U20A20207,62004184,62004186,and 62234007)the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (Grant No.2020B010174002)+3 种基金the funding support from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) (Grant Nos.YD2100002009 and YD2100002010)the Fundamental Research Plan (Grant No.JCKY2020110B010)Collaborative Innovation Program of Hefei Science Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.2022HSC-CIP024)the Opening Project of and the Key Laboratory of Nanodevices and Applications in Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics of CAS。
文摘Recently,β-Ga_(2)O_(3),an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor,has shown great potential to be used in power devices blessed with its unique material properties.For instance,the measured average critical field of the vertical Schottky barrier diode(SBD)based onβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) has reached 5.45 MV/cm,and no device in any material has measured a greater before.However,the high electric field of theβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) SBD makes it challenging to manage the electric field distribution and leakage current.Here,we showβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) junction barrier Schottky diode with NiO p-well floating field rings(FFRs).For the central anode,we filled a circular trench array with NiO to reduce the surface field under the Schottky contact between them to reduce the leakage current of the device.For the anode edge,experimental results have demonstrated that the produced NiO/β-Ga_(2)O_(3) heterojunction FFRs enable the spreading of the depletion region,thereby mitigating the crowding effect of electric fields at the anode edge.Additionally,simulation results indicated that the p-NiO field plate structure designed at the edges of the rings and central anode can further reduce the electric field.This work verified the feasibility of the heterojunction FFRs inβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) devices based on the experimental findings and provided ideas for managing the electric field ofβ-Ga_(2)O_(3) SBD.
文摘WT8.BZ]A new quasi 2-dimensional analytical approach to predicting the ring voltage,edge peak fields and optimal spacing of the planar junction with a single floating field limiting ring structure has been proposed,based on the cylindrical symmetric solution and the critical field concept.The effects of the spacing and reverse voltage on the ring junction voltage and edge peak field profiles have been analyzed.The optimal spacing and the maximum breakdown voltage of the structure have also been obtained.The analytical results are in excellent agreement with that obtained from the 2-D device simulator,MEDICI and the reported result,which proves the presented model valid.
