
doi: 10.1557/opl.2014.522
ABSTRACTSiC power devices can handle large power and high frequency switching beyond the Si power devices. Typical full-SiC power modules are composed of both SiC-MOSFETs and SiC-SBDs to suppress the degradation of Ron of SiC-MOSFET during the bipolar reverse-current flow while there will be unfavorable consequences such as increased material cost, larger area, and larger wiring inductances. Panasonic has proposed the SiC-DioMOS which successfully integrates the unipolar reverse diode without any increase of chip size from the original DIMOS transistor. The SiC-DioMOS utilizes the highly-doped n-type epitaxial channel under the MOS gate for the FET channel and also for the reverse conduction path of the diode. Thickness and concentration of the highly-doped n-typed channel are carefully designed to achieve reasonable Vth of the MOSFET and Vf0 barrier constituting the diode current. The MOSFET and also the MOS-channel diode completely operate under unipolar mode. The SiC-DioMOS with BVds=1700V, Ron=20mΩ、Vth=4.5V, Vf0=0.8V is successively fabricated using the state-of-the-art epitaxial-growth technique. Fast switching of tr=58ns and tf=13ns is confirmed. The SiC-DioMOS meets practical standards for safety operation of high-power fast switching without SiC-SBD.
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