A. Dikshit, V. Subramanian, S. Pandharpure, S. Sirohi, T. Letavic
{"title":"Influence of drift region on the 1/f noise in LDMOS","authors":"A. Dikshit, V. Subramanian, S. Pandharpure, S. Sirohi, T. Letavic","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229086","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of drift region on the flicker noise in LDMOS devices in the linear and saturation regions is analyzed using measured data and device simulations. In the linear region, noise in the drift region arises from gate-drain overlap region and is significant for longer channel length devices. For shorter channel length devices, the sub-surface current flow in the gate-drain overlap region reduces the contribution of noise from the drift region. In the saturation region, noise is dependent on quasi-saturation condition, and reaches its lowest value only when the channel is saturated.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124272347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hsueh-Rong Chang, J. Bu, Henning M. Hauenstein, Michael Wittmann, Jack Marcinkowski, Mark Pavier, Scott Palmer, Jim Tompkins
{"title":"200 kVA compact IGBT modules with double-sided cooling for HEV and EV","authors":"Hsueh-Rong Chang, J. Bu, Henning M. Hauenstein, Michael Wittmann, Jack Marcinkowski, Mark Pavier, Scott Palmer, Jim Tompkins","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229082","url":null,"abstract":"High power compact IGBT half bridge modules with a current rating of 300A and a blocking voltage of 650V using ultra thin IGBTs and diodes have been successfully developed with double-sided cooling capability. The wirebond-less package building block called COOLiR2DIE™ has a small area of 28.5 mm × 16 mm with a power rating 200 kVA, This is the most compact IGBT package reported today. A low on-state voltage of 1.6V at 300A is achieved in the wirebond-less package. The combination of lower on-state voltage and larger heat exchange area due to the solderable front metal (SFM), increases the IGBT module current carrying capability by 30%.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126057474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breakdown characteristics of 12–20 kV-class 4H-SiC PiN diodes with improved junction termination structures","authors":"H. Niwa, G. Feng, J. Suda, T. Kimoto","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229101","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrahigh-voltage 4H-SiC PiN diodes with improved junction termination extension (JTE) structures have been investigated. Breakdown characteristics of 4H-SiC PiN diodes with conventional single-zone JTE was shown to be severely affected by the charge near the SiO2/SiC interface from experiment and device simulation. Taking the effect of the interface charge into account, and by using “Space-Modulated” JTE structure with a wide optimum JTE-dose window to tolerate the impact of interface charge, we achieved a breakdown voltage of 21.7 kV (81 % of the ideal breakdown voltage calculated from the epilayer structure), which is the highest breakdown voltage among any semiconductor devices ever reported.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130845754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Nitta, Y. Yoshihisa, T. Kuroi, K. Hatasako, S. Maegawa, K. Onishi
{"title":"Enhanced active protection technique for substrate minority carrier injection in Smart Power IC","authors":"T. Nitta, Y. Yoshihisa, T. Kuroi, K. Hatasako, S. Maegawa, K. Onishi","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229059","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, protection techniques against parasitic action due to minority carrier injection into substrate for Smart Power ICs have been presented. We investigated the protection efficiency of active type protection for various layout arrangements that are applicable to realistic IC, and found that the protection efficiency was strongly dependent on the layout. We propose the active type protection structure at collector side, which is effective at avoiding interferences from other components in realistic IC. We also found that separate type protection, which is one variation of the collector side protection, is more effective. The area penalty and the dependence of protection efficiency on temperature were also discussed.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126926037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymmetric gate resistor power MOSFET","authors":"Jun Wang, Shuming Xu, J. Korec, F. Baiocchi","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229108","url":null,"abstract":"Power converters, e.g. in a popular synchronous buck topology, need high performance power MOSFETs in order to achieve high efficiency, low voltage ringing, ESD protection and low EMI. To satisfy these requirements, an asymmetric gate resistor power MOSFET is proposed by integrating a shunt resistor with a parallel LDMOSFET-connected diode in a source down power MOSFET (NexFET). The novel MOSFET has several advantages. First, the shunt resistor is used to slow down the turn-on speed of the high-side (HS) MOSFET, resulting in small voltage ringing of the switch node and low EMI in a synchronous buck converter. Second, the integrated diode preserves a fast turn-off speed and high conversion efficiency. Third, the bulk diode of the LDMOSFET can achieve ESD protection for gate oxide.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126828781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fontserè, A. Pérez‐Tomás, V. Banu, P. Godignon, J. Millán, H. De Vleeschouwer, J. Parsey, P. Moens
{"title":"A HfO2 based 800V/300°C Au-free AlGaN/GaN-on-Si HEMT technology","authors":"A. Fontserè, A. Pérez‐Tomás, V. Banu, P. Godignon, J. Millán, H. De Vleeschouwer, J. Parsey, P. Moens","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229017","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative 800V/300°C AlGaN/GaN-on-Si high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) fabricated with a 4-inch Si CMOS compatible technology are presented in this paper. High performance AlGaN/GaN MIS gated HEMT (MIS-HEMT) and passivated HEMT (i-HEMT) were fabricated using 5nm-thick HfO<sub>2</sub>, and 30nm-thick CVD Si<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> as the gate and passivation insulator, respectively. Contact resistance maps yield reduced R<sub>c</sub> of 1.32±0.26 Ωmm for Au-free compared to 0.86±0.58 Ωmm for conventional Au-based Ohmic metallization. The off-state breakdown voltage is around 800V with a specific on-resistance of 2 mΩcm<sup>2</sup>. Gate and drain leakage currents as well as dynamic I-V trapping are significantly improved with the MIS-HEMT architecture with almost no trade-off to the on-state.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127810004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mouhoubi, Y. Wu, F. Bauwens, J. Roig, P. Gassot, M. Tack
{"title":"A family of robust DMOS devices for automotive applications","authors":"S. Mouhoubi, Y. Wu, F. Bauwens, J. Roig, P. Gassot, M. Tack","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229032","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents different methodologies to optimize devices of smart power technologies for robustness consideration. A split gate concept is used to improve the flatness of Id-Vd curves of the nVDMOS by maintaining the Intrinsic MOS in a stable operating regime. The split gate is also used to increase the BVdss of the pLDMOS. An additional buffer at the end of the drift region of the nLDMOS helps extending the SOA limits due to a controlled positive differential resistor branch.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128765410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Antoniou, F. Udrea, F. Bauer, A. Mihaila, I. Nistor
{"title":"Point injection in trench insulated gate bipolar transistor for ultra low losses","authors":"M. Antoniou, F. Udrea, F. Bauer, A. Mihaila, I. Nistor","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229013","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose novel designs that enhance the plasma concentration across the Field Stop IGBT. The “p-ring” and the “point-injection” type devices exhibit increased cathode side conductivity modulation which results in impressive IGBT performance improvement. These designs are shown to be extremely effective in lowering the on-state losses without compromising the switching performance or the breakdown rating. For the same switching losses we can achieve more than 20% reduction of the on state energy losses compared to the conventional FS IGBT.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133617905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zehong Li, M. Ren, Meng Zhang, Shijiang Yu, Jin-ping Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhaoji Li
{"title":"Innovative Buried Layer Rectifier with 0.1V ultralow forward conduction voltage","authors":"Zehong Li, M. Ren, Meng Zhang, Shijiang Yu, Jin-ping Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhaoji Li","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229034","url":null,"abstract":"A novel Buried Layer Rectifier (BLR) is proposed and demonstrated, which features P-layers buried under the N-channel to create a barrier for majority carriers whose height can be modulated by the anode voltage. The forward conduction voltage (VF) is considerably reduced due to the ultra-low barrier. The buried P-layers also significantly enhance the blocking capability and reduce the leakage current. Experiments show that the novel 100-V BLR exhibits an ultra-low VF of 0.1V and a fast reverse recovery time (Trr) shorter than 20ns.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131745732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multi-region trap characterization method and its reliability application on STI-based high-voltage LDMOSFETs","authors":"Yandong He, Ganggang Zhang, Xing Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSD.2012.6229084","url":null,"abstract":"The STI-based laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) devices have become popular with its better tradeoff between breakdown voltage and on-resistance and its compatibility with the standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. In this paper, a multi-region trap characterization direct current current-voltage (MR-DCIV) technique was proposed to characterize interface state generation in both channel and STI drift regions. The correlation between interface trap and MR-DCIV current has been verified by two-dimensional device simulation. Degradation of STI-based LDMOS transistors in various reliability stress modes is investigated experimentally by proposed technique. The impact of interface state location on device electrical characteristics is analyzed from measurement and simulation. Our study reveals that OFF-state stress becomes the worst degradation mode in term of the on-resistance degradation, which is attributed to interface state generation under STI drift region.","PeriodicalId":371298,"journal":{"name":"2012 24th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124522036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}