Abstract:
A method for producing a semiconductor device having semiconductor layers of SiC with at least three doped layers on top of each other comprises: a step a) of growing a first semiconductor layer (1) of SiC; a step b) following on step a) of implanting an impurity dopant into said first layer for forming a second doped surface layer (3) as a sub-layer therein; and a step c) following upon step b) and in which a third semiconductor layer (4) of SiC is epitaxially grown on top of said second layer of SiC.
Abstract:
A semiconductor component and a method for processing said component, which comprises a pn junction, where both the p-conducting (3) and the n-conducting layers (2) of the pn junction constitute doped silicon carbide layers and where the edge of the higher doped conducting layer of the pn junction exhibits a charge profile with a stepwise or uniformly decreasing total charge or effective surface charge density from the initial value at the main pn junction to a zero or almost zero total charge or charge density at the outermost edge of the junction following a radial direction from the central part of the junction towards the outermost edge.
Abstract:
A method for producing a semiconductor device comprises a step of implanting first conductivity type impurity dopants of at least two different elements in a semiconductor layer being doped according to a second opposite conductivity type, and after that annealing the semiconductor layer at such a high temperature that one of said elements is diffusing slowly into the semiconductor layer and the other is diffusing rapidly thereinto.
Abstract:
A method for producing a semiconductor device comprising a step a) of implanting an impurity dopant of a first conductivity type into said semiconductor layer (1) being doped according to a second opposite conductivity type for forming a first type doped surface layer (2) surrounded, except for the top surface thereof, by second conductivity type doped regions (3) of said semiconductor layer for forming a pn-junction (4) at the interface thereto. A highly doped additional semiconductor layer (5) is grown on top of said surface layer (2) for forming a contact layer allowing a low resistance ohmic contact to be established to the device so created.
Abstract:
A pn-diode of SiC has a first emitter layer part doped with first dopants having a low ionization energy and a second part designed as a grid and having portions extending vertically from above and past the junction between the drift layer and the first part and being laterally separated from each other by drift layer regions for forming a pn-junction by the first part and the drift layer adjacent such portions at a vertical distance from a lower end of the grid portions. The different parameters of the device are selected to allow a depletion of the drift layer in the blocking state form a continuous depleted region between the grid portions, to thereby screen off the high electric field at the pn-junction so that it will not be exposed to high electrical fields.
Abstract:
A method for producing a crystalline layer of SiC having at least a region thereof doped with boron atoms comprises a step a) of ion implantation of boron into a layer (1) of crystalline SiC and a step b) of heating the SiC-layer for annealing it for making the boron implanted therein electrically active. The method further comprises a step c) of implanting carbon atoms in said layer (1) for forming carbon interstitials in excess with respect to carbon vacancies present in the SiC-layer before carrying out step b).
Abstract:
A method for producing a crystalline layer of SiC having at least a region thereof doped with boron atoms comprises a step a) of ion implantation of boron into a layer (1) of crystalline SiC and a step b) of heating the SiC-layer for annealing it for making the boron implanted therein electrically active. The method further comprises a step c) of implanting carbon atoms in said layer (1) for forming carbon interstitials in excess with respect to carbon vacancies present in the SiC-layer before carrying out step b).