Effect of Post-Oxidation Annealing in Wet O2 and N2O Ambient on Thermally Grown SiO2/4H-SiC Interface for P-Channel MOS Devices

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We investigated the effect of post-oxidation annealing in wet O2 and N2O ambient, following dry O2 oxidation on the SiC MOS interfacial properties by using p-type MOS capacitors. The interfacial properties were dramatically improved by the introduction of hydrogen or nitrogen atoms into the SiO2/SiC interface, in each POA process. Notably, the N2O-POA process at 1200 °C or higher reduced the interface state density more effectively than the wet-O2-POA process, and offers a promising method to further improve the inversion channel mobility of p-channel SiC MOS devices.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 717-720)

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709-712

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May 2012

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