We report an alignment-free gallium oxide (Ga2O3) heterojunction barrier Schottky (HJBS) power diode, which utilizes the self-assembled Ni nanostructures as in situ masks for trench etching of Ga2O3 and subsequent selective-area filling p-type NiO. By increasing depth to 200 nm, relevant HJBS diode exhibits improved reverse blocking capabilities including reduced leakage current density 10−8 A/...

Hydrogen is detected using a Pd/n-InP Schottky diode in which the elongated, very thin Pd electrode is of greater resistance than the underlying semiconductor substrate. Four-probe measurements of the device resistance, as a function of hydrogen concentration, are made by contacting only the Pd electrode, with a sensitivity of 1 ppm being achieved. On hydrogen exposure the device resistance dro...

This paper reports on SiC devices operating in a dc-dc buck converter under extremely high ambient temperatures. To this end, the authors packaged SiC JFET and Schottky diodes in thermally stable packages and built a high-temperature inductor. The converter was tested at ambient temperatures up to 400◦C. Although the conduction loss of the SiC JFET increases slightly with increasing temperature...

We examine the photo-assisted polarization loop in a BiFeO3 thin film under UV light illumination. BiFeO3 thin film prepared by pulsed laser deposition method onto the BaTiO3 thin film and the polarization behavior has been measured under poling voltage. Our results show the engineered polarization due to controllable schottky barrier under inverse poling voltage. This control on schottky barri...

Silicon carbide (SiC) has long been shown to be one of the most promising materials for high-voltage power semiconductor devices. New device technologies and products have lead to an ever increasing size and variety of the markets addressed by SiC. The specific material properties and the new applications served by SiC devices give rise to specific reliability requirements, reaching beyond the ...

The paper concerns the problem of modelling d.c. characteristics of commercial SiC power Schottky diodes with self-heating taken into account. The electrothermal model of the investigated devices is proposed and experimentally verified. The evaluation of accuracy of the elaborated model has been performed by comparison of measured and calculated characteristics of selected SiC power Schottky di...

Reliability is one of the key issues for the application of Silicon carbide (SiC) diode in high power conversion systems. For instance, in high voltage direct current (HVDC) converters, the devices can be submitted to high voltage transients which yield to avalanche. This paper presents the experimental evaluation of SiC diodes submitted to avalanche, and shows that the energy dissipation in th...

Mitsubishi Electric has developed a 1.7 kV hybrid SiC power module consisting of 6th generation Si-IGBT and SiC Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD). Adopting SiC-SBD enables a significant power loss reduction during the diode turn-off and IGBT turn-on. And adopting of 6th generation IGBT enables the reduction of the IGBT turn-off loss. By using the newly developed chip set, high temperature enduring g...