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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(4): 048503    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac8722
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A 4H-SiC trench IGBT with controllable hole-extracting path for low loss

Lijuan Wu(吴丽娟), Heng Liu(刘恒), Xuanting Song(宋宣廷), Xing Chen(陈星), Jinsheng Zeng(曾金胜), Tao Qiu(邱滔), and Banghui Zhang(张帮会)
Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronic Materials Genome Engineering, Changsha University of Science&Technology, Changsha 410114, China
Abstract  A novel 4H-SiC trench insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) with a controllable hole-extracting (CHE) path is proposed and investigated in this paper. The CHE path is controlled by metal semiconductor gate (MES gate) and metal oxide semiconductor gate (MOS gate) in the p-shield region. The grounded p-shield region can significantly suppress the high electric field around gate oxide in SiC devices, but it weakens the conductivity modulation in the SiC trench IGBT by rapidly sweeping out holes. This effect can be eliminated by introducing the CHE path. The CHE path is pinched off by the high gate bias voltage at on-state to maintain high conductivity modulation and obtain a comparatively low on-state voltage ($V_{\rm ON}$). During the turn-off transient, the CHE path is formed, which contributes to a decreased turn-off loss ($E_{\rm OFF}$). Based on numerical simulation, the $E_{\rm OFF}$ of the proposed IGBT is reduced by 89% compared with the conventional IGBT at the same $V_{\rm ON}$ and the $V_{\rm ON}$ of the proposed IGBT is reduced by 50% compared to the grounded p-shield IGBT at the same $E_{\rm OFF}$. In addition, the average power reduction for the proposed device can be 51.0% to 81.7% and 58.2% to 72.1% with its counterparts at a wide frequency range of 500 Hz to 10 kHz, revealing a great improvement of frequency characteristics.
Keywords:  controllable hole-extracting path      energy loss      frequency characteristics      SiC insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)  
Received:  15 April 2022      Revised:  04 July 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  05 August 2022
PACS:  85.30.De (Semiconductor-device characterization, design, and modeling)  
  85.30.Tv (Field effect devices)  
  85.30.Pq (Bipolar transistors)  
Fund: Project supported by the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2021JJ30738), Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (Grant No. 19K001), and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronic Materials Genome Engineering's Open Fund Project-2020 (Grant No. 202016).
Corresponding Authors:  Lijuan Wu     E-mail:  413675452@qq.com

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Lijuan Wu(吴丽娟), Heng Liu(刘恒), Xuanting Song(宋宣廷), Xing Chen(陈星), Jinsheng Zeng(曾金胜), Tao Qiu(邱滔), and Banghui Zhang(张帮会) A 4H-SiC trench IGBT with controllable hole-extracting path for low loss 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 048503

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