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With the rapidly increasing demands pertaining to high voltage applications in modern power electronic systems, power devices have become widely used in today’s power applications. As a major carrier device without unreliable metal-semiconductor Schottky contact, super barrier rectifier (SBR) has been one of promising substitutions for traditional diodes since it was first introduced, owing to its excellent performance and reliability. The main principle behind SBR approach is to create an adjustable potential barrier in the MOS channel. The height of this barrier can be easily adjusted by the doping concentration in the channel and by the oxide thickness. Trench-gate-type SBR (TSBR) with a trench gate is so designed that the junction-type field-effect transistor effect of planar gate structure enables TSBR to be eliminated to have ultralow forward voltages and a good tradeoff between the forward voltages and reverse leakage currents. However, the charge coupling effect under reverse bias, which is usually neglected and not intensively studied, plays an important role in determining the breakdown voltage of TSBR for high voltage applications (above 200 V). In this paper, the two-dimensional electric field distribution influenced by the charge coupling effect is explained and verified by the analytical model and device simulations with TCAD software Sentaurus. Adjusting the key parameters including the trench depth, oxide thickness and mesa width can improve the tradeoff between the forward voltage drops and breakdown voltages. The optimization of key parameters can provide the significant guidance for designing the device structure. Furthermore, some considerations for designing the TSBRs are discussed in this paper. In addition, a novel TSBR with the stepped oxide structure (SO-TSBR) is proposed and demonstrated. Similar to, yet different from, the stepped oxide structure for dual trench MOSFET, the stepped oxide design equipped with this new rectifier possesses the ability to enhance the forward conduction. As indicated by the simulation results, the SO-TSBR reduces the forward voltage drop by 51.49% at a forward current density of 2.5 A/cm2 compared with the normal structure of TSBR, with almost the same breakdown voltage of 270 V. The optimized TSBRs and SO-TSBRs are very promising rectifiers that can be used in high power electronic systems, because their breakdown voltages are both greater than 250 V.
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Keywords:
- trench-gate-type super barrier rectifier /
- charge coupling /
- breakdown voltage /
- stepped oxide
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图 1 TSBR结构及原理图(G, 栅极; S, 源极; D, 漏极)
Figure 1. Structure and schematic diagram of TSBR (G, gate electrode; S, source electrode; D, drain electrode).
图 2 耗尽区和关键点示意图
Figure 2. Schematic diagram of the depletion and key points.
图 3 不同τox条件下击穿电压随Dt的变化趋势
Figure 3. The Dt dependence of the breakdown voltage with various τox.
图 4 薄栅氧条件下Dt对台面中心电场分布的影响
Figure 4. Effect of Dt on the electric field distribution at the medial axis of the mesa with the thinner oxide.
图 5 τox = 200 nm时Dt对台面中心电场分布(a)以及关键点场强(b)的影响
Figure 5. Effects of Dt on the electric field distribution at the medial axis of the mesa (a) and the magnitude of the total electric field at key points (b) when τox = 200 nm.
图 6 Wms对台面中心电场分布的影响
Figure 6. Effect of Wms on the electric field distribution at the medial axis of the mesa.
图 7 SO-TSBR结构图
Figure 7. Structure of SO-TSBR.
图 8 不同Tso条件下SO-TSBR击穿电压随Dt的变化
Figure 8. The Dt dependence of the breakdown voltage with various Tso.
图 9 Tso对正向导通特性的影响
Figure 9. Effect of Tso on forward characteristics.
图 10 Tso对反向漏电流的影响
Figure 10. Effect of Tso on the reverse leakage currents.
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[1] Rodov V, Ankoudinov A L, Ghosh P 2007 Solid-State Electron. 51 714
Google Scholar
[2] Rodov V, Ankoudinov A L, Taufik T 2007 APEC 07-Twenty-Second Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition Anaheim, USA, February 25–March 1, 2007 p1053
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Google Scholar
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[6] Chen W S, Zhang P J, Zhong Y, Tan K Z, Liao R J, Zeng Z 2017 IEEE Electron Device Lett. 38 244
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[8] Rodov V, Hsueh W Y W, Chang P, Lin C, Chern M 2001 US Patent 6 331 455
[9] Chang P, Rodov V, Chern G C, Lin C, Chiang C L 2002 US Patent 6 420 225
[10] Chang P, Chern G C, Hsueh W Y W, Rodov V, Lin C 2004 US Patent 6 765 264
[11] Lizio F 2015 US Patent 9 018 048
[12] Ankoudinov A, Rodov V 2015 US Patent 9 012 954
[13] Shen J 2013 CN Patent 103 400 840
[14] Shen J 2014 CN Patent 103 887 308
[15] Chen Q, Hu W, Huang Y L 2016 CN Patent 106 098 686
[16] Chen W S, Liao R J, Zhang P J, Zeng Z, Zhang B 2018 IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 65 215
Google Scholar
[17] Mehrotra M, Baliga B J 1995 Solid-State Electron. 38 801
Google Scholar
[18] 陈星弼 2008 电力电子技术 42 2
Google Scholar
Chen X B 2008 Power Electron. 42 2
Google Scholar
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[20] Baliga B J 2009 Advanced Power Rectifier Concepts (New York: Springer Science Business Media) p119
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Google Scholar
[22] Park C, Azam M, Dengel G, Shibib A, Terrill K 2019 31st International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) Shanghai, China, May 19–23, 2019 p95
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