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  • The effect of edge-terminat...
    Ki, Ra-Seong; Lee, Jea-Gil; Cha, Ho-Young; Seo, Kwang-Seok

    Solid-state electronics, April 2020, 2020-04-00, Letnik: 166
    Journal Article

    •We verified the effect of applying anode edge-termination to AlGaN/GaN Schottky barrier diode with gated ohmic anode structure through device fabrication and simulation.•By merging two types of structures (gated ohmic anode and edge-termination), we could improve both forward characteristic and the reverse characteristic having a trade-off relationship with each other.•And it was confirmed that the actual breakdown voltage and reverse leakage current were increased by 200 V and reduced by 5 times respectively.•The pulsed I-V response could also be improved from 16% to 3.5% with no forward current characteristics degradation. We have investigated the effect of an edge-terminated structure in the anode of a gated ohmic anode AlGaN/GaN lateral Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD) device. The edge-terminated structure in the anode serves as a kind of field plate, which suppresses a reverse leakage current and improves a switching characteristic by reducing trapping effect at the active region. According to our two-dimensional simulation results, the electric field concentration near the edge of the anode was relatively reduced by the edge-terminated structure. For the fabricated devices, it was exhibited that the diode with proposed structure has lower reverse leakage current density without degradation of the forward current density, compared to the diode without the edge-terminated structure. In addition, the pulse response degradation was significantly improved from 16 to 3.5% at the forward voltage of 1.5 V when the reverse voltage of −100 V was applied.