• Chinese Physics B
  • Vol. 29, Issue 9, (2020)
Ji-Long Hao1、2, Yun Bai1、2、†, Xin-Yu Liu1、2, Cheng-Zhan Li3, Yi-Dan Tang1、2, Hong Chen1、2, Xiao-Li Tian1、2, Jiang Lu1、2, and Sheng-Kai Wang1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 00029, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co., Ltd., Zhuzhou 412000, China
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    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab9434 Cite this Article
    Ji-Long Hao, Yun Bai, Xin-Yu Liu, Cheng-Zhan Li, Yi-Dan Tang, Hong Chen, Xiao-Li Tian, Jiang Lu, Sheng-Kai Wang. Improved electrical properties of NO-nitrided SiC/SiO2 interface after electron irradiation[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(9): Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Effective improvement in electrical properties of NO passivated SiC/SiO2 interface after being irradiated by electrons is demonstrated. The density of interface traps after being irradiated by 100-kGy electrons decreases by about one order of magnitude, specifically, from 3×1012 cm-2?eV-1 to 4×1011 cm-2?eV-1 at 0.2 eV below the conduction band of 4H-SiC without any degradation of electric breakdown field. Particularly, the results of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement show that the C–N bonds are generated near the interface after electron irradiation, indicating that the carbon-related defects are further reduced.
    $$ \begin{eqnarray}{D}_{{\rm{it}}}=\displaystyle \frac{1}{q}\left[{\left(\displaystyle \frac{1}{{C}_{{\rm{QS}}}}-\displaystyle \frac{1}{{C}_{{\rm{ox}}}}\right)}^{-1}-{\left(\displaystyle \frac{1}{{C}_{{\rm{HF}}}}-\displaystyle \frac{1}{{C}_{{\rm{ox}}}}\right)}^{-1}\right],\end{eqnarray}$$(1)

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    $$ \begin{eqnarray}{E}_{{\rm{C}}}-E=e(0.19\,{\rm{V}}-{\psi }_{{\rm{s}}})\end{eqnarray}$$(2)

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    $$ \begin{eqnarray}{N}_{{\rm{NIT}}}=\displaystyle \frac{|\Delta {V}_{{\rm{Hys}}}|{C}_{{\rm{ox}}}}{qS},\end{eqnarray}$$(3)

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    $$ \begin{eqnarray}{\rm{O}}-{\rm{Si}}-{\rm{N}}+{\rm{e}}-\leftarrow \to {\rm{O}}-{\rm{Si}}-{+{\rm{N}}}^{^\circ }.\end{eqnarray}$$()

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    $$ \begin{eqnarray}J=\displaystyle \frac{{q}^{3}(m/{m}^{\ast })}{8\pi h{\varPhi }_{{\rm{B}}}}{E}^{2}\exp \left(\displaystyle \frac{-8\pi {(2{m}^{\ast })}^{1/2}{\Phi }_{B}^{3/2}}{3hqE}\right),\end{eqnarray}$$(4)

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    Ji-Long Hao, Yun Bai, Xin-Yu Liu, Cheng-Zhan Li, Yi-Dan Tang, Hong Chen, Xiao-Li Tian, Jiang Lu, Sheng-Kai Wang. Improved electrical properties of NO-nitrided SiC/SiO2 interface after electron irradiation[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(9):
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