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TITLE Silicon Carbide Field-effect Transistor Working at High Temperature Environments.
(Joint Program to Promote Technological Development with the Private Sectors)
AUTHOR

RITE-OMIYA@LABORATORY in MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION

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ABSTRACT

Silicon carbide field-effect transistors were developed for use in high temperature environments. These transistors are, for example,installed in an engine room of cars to attain more precise control of fuel combustions ,resulting in a lesser emission level of harmful substances such as CO and NOx in the exhausted gas from cars.

A cubic type silicon carbide(3C-SiC) was grown heteroepitaxially by MOCVD using C3H8 and SiH4 gases with H2 gas as a carrier. At first,single crystal n-type layer of 2ƒÊm thick, and then 3ƒÊm thick Al-doped p-type layer was grown on 2 inch Si single crystal wafers. The carrier densities of SiC layers were 5`10E16cm-3 for n-type and 5E16cm-3 for p-type layer. The mobility of n-type layer was 300cm2/Vs at room temperature. A cylindrical,inversion type field-effect transistors were constructed on the p-type SiC layer,which had 3ƒÊm gate length and 377ƒÊm gate width.

The gate oxide was 50nm thick and grown thermally in wet oxygen ambient using pyrogenetic oxidation furnace. Source and drain regions were built in the p-type layer,by three times multiple ion implantations of nitrogen with holding the substrate at 650Ž and successive thermal annealing at 1,400Ž. Thermally resistive electrode,insulation and interconnection techniques were used to construct transistor chips and they were assembled in ceramics packages.

The characteristics of the developed transistors were as follows:

@Maximum source-to-drain voltage = 25V

@Maximum drain current = 55mA

@Mutual conductance = 2.5mS(typical)

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The transistors are active up to 400Ž and as good as to assemble small signalamplifiers working at,as high temperature as 400Ž environments.