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Influence of Triangle Structure Defect on the Carrier Lifetime of the 4H-SiC Ultra-Thick Epilayer |
| Ying-Xi Niu1,2, Xiao-Yan Tang1**, Ren-Xu Jia1, Ling Sang2, Ji-Chao Hu3, Fei Yang2, Jun-Min Wu2, Yan Pan2, Yu-Ming Zhang1 |
1School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, the State Key Laboratory of Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Technology, Xi'an 710071
2State Key Laboratory of Advanced Power Transmission Technology, Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, Beijing 102211
3Department of Electronic Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048
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Ying-Xi Niu, Xiao-Yan Tang, Ren-Xu Jia et al 2018 Chin. Phys. Lett. 35 077103 |
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Abstract Effect of triangle structure defects in a 180-μm-thick as-grown n-type 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layer on the carrier lifetime is quantitatively analyzed, which is grown by a horizontal hot-wall chemical vapor deposition reactor. By microwave photoconductivity decay lifetime measurements and photoluminescence measurements, the results show that the average carrier lifetime of as-grown epilayer across the whole wafer is 2.59 μs, while it is no more than 1.34 μs near a triangle defect (TD). The scanning transmission electron microscope results show that the triangle structure defects have originated from 3C-SiC polytype and various types of as-grown stacking faults. Compared with the as-grown stacking faults, the 3C-SiC polytype has a great impact on the lifetime. The reduction of TD is essential to increasing the carrier lifetime of the as-grown thick epilayer.
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Received: 17 April 2018
Published: 24 June 2018
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| PACS: |
71.20.Nr
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(Semiconductor compounds)
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61.72.-y
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(Defects and impurities in crystals; microstructure)
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81.15.Gh
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(Chemical vapor deposition (including plasma-enhanced CVD, MOCVD, ALD, etc.))
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| Fund: Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No 2016YFB0400500. |
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