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Part I Silicon Carbide (SiC) |
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1 | (352) |
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1 Dislocation Formation During Physical Vapor Transport Growth of 4H-SiC Crystals |
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3 | (30) |
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3 | (2) |
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1.2 Formation of Basal Plane Dislocations During PVT Growth of 4H-SiC Crystals |
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5 | (13) |
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1.2.1 Plan-View X-ray Topography Observations of Growth Front |
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5 | (4) |
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1.2.2 Cross-Sectional X-ray Topography Observations of Growth Front |
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1.2.3 Characteristic BPD Distribution in PVT-Grown 4H-SiC Crystals |
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13 | (2) |
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1.2.4 BPD Multiplication During PVT Growth |
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15 | (3) |
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1.3 Dislocation Formation During Initial Stage of PVT Growth of 4H-SiC Crystals |
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18 | (10) |
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1.3.1 Preparation of 4H-SiC Wafers with Beveled Interface Between Grown Crystal and Seed Crystal |
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18 | (1) |
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1.3.2 Determination of Grown-Crystal/Seed Interface by Raman Microscopy |
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19 | (3) |
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1.3.3 X-ray Topography Observations of Dislocation Structure at Grown-Crystal/Seed Interface |
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22 | (1) |
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1.3.4 Formation Mechanism of BPD Networks and Their Migration into Seed Crystal |
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23 | (5) |
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28 | (5) |
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30 | (3) |
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2 Industrial Perspectives of SiC Bulk Growth |
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33 | (14) |
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33 | (1) |
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2.2 SiC Substrates for GaN LEDs |
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33 | (1) |
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2.3 SiC Substrates for Power SiC Devices |
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34 | (1) |
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2.4 SiC Substrates for High-Frequency Devices |
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35 | (1) |
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2.5 Cost Considerations for Commercial Production of SiC |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (1) |
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2.10 Turning Boules into Wafers |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (3) |
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45 | (1) |
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45 | (2) |
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3 Homoepitaxial Growth of 4H-SiC on Vicinal Substrates |
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47 | (28) |
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47 | (1) |
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3.2 Fundamentals of 4H-SiC Homoepitaxy for Power Electronic Devices |
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47 | (8) |
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3.2.1 4H-SiC Polytype Replication for Homoepitaxial Growth on Vicinal Substrates |
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48 | (4) |
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3.2.2 Homoepitaxial Growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Process |
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52 | (1) |
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3.2.3 Doping in Homoepitaxial Growth |
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53 | (2) |
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3.3 Extended Defects in Homoepitaxial Layers |
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55 | (7) |
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3.3.1 Classification of Extended Defects According to Glide Systems in 4H-SiC |
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56 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Dislocation Reactions During Epitaxial Growth |
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57 | (2) |
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3.3.3 Characterization Methods for Extended Defects in 4H-SiC Epilayers |
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59 | (3) |
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3.4 Point Defects and Carrier Lifetime in Epilayers |
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62 | (7) |
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3.4.1 Classification and General Properties of Point Defects in 4H-SiC |
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62 | (2) |
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3.4.2 Basics on Recombination Carrier Lifetime in 4H-SiC |
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64 | (1) |
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3.4.3 Carrier Lifetime-Affecting Point Defects |
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65 | (3) |
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3.4.4 Carrier Lifetime Measurement in Epiwafers and Devices |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (6) |
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70 | (1) |
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70 | (5) |
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4 Industrial Perspective of SiC Epitaxy |
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75 | (18) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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4.3 The Basics of SiC Epitaxy |
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76 | (2) |
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4.4 SiC Epi Historical Origins |
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78 | (2) |
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4.5 Planetary Multi-wafer Epitaxial Reactor Design Considerations |
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80 | (2) |
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4.5.1 Rapidly Rotating Reactors |
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81 | (1) |
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4.5.2 Horizontal Hot-Wall Reactors |
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82 | (1) |
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4.6 Latest High-Throughput Epitaxial Reactor Status |
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82 | (4) |
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4.7 Benefits and Challenges for Increasing Growth Rate in all Reactors |
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86 | (1) |
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4.8 Increasing Wafer Diameters, Device Processing Considerations, and Projections |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (4) |
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90 | (1) |
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90 | (3) |
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5 Status of 3C-SiC Growth and Device Technology |
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93 | (44) |
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5.1 Introduction, Motivation, Short Review on 3C-SiC |
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93 | (2) |
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5.2 Nucleation and Epitaxial Growth of 3C-SC on Si |
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95 | (8) |
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95 | (3) |
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98 | (4) |
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102 | (1) |
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5.3 Bulk Growth of 3C-SiC |
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103 | (14) |
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5.3.1 Sublimation Growth of (111)-oriented 3C-SiC on Hexagonal SiC Substrates |
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104 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Sublimation Growth of 3C-SiC on 3C-SiC CVD Seeding Layers |
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105 | (5) |
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5.3.3 Continuous Fast CVD Growth of 3C-SiC on 3C-SiC CVD Seeding Layers |
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110 | (7) |
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5.4 Processing and Testing of 3C-SiC Based Power Electronic Devices |
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117 | (10) |
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5.4.1 Prospects for 3C-SiC Power Electronic Devices |
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117 | (1) |
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5.4.2 3C-SiC Device Processing |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (2) |
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5.4.4 3C-SiC/SiO2 Interface Passivation |
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120 | (1) |
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5.4.5 Surface Morphology Effects on 3C-SiC Thermal Oxidation |
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121 | (1) |
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5.4.6 Thermal Oxidation Temperature Effects for 3C-SiC |
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122 | (1) |
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5.4.7 Ohmic Contact Metalization |
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123 | (3) |
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5.4.8 N-type 3C-SiC Ohmic Contacts |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (10) |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (10) |
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6 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Electrically Active Point Defects in SiC |
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137 | (32) |
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6.1 Characterization of Electrically Active Defects |
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141 | (5) |
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6.1.1 Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy |
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141 | (2) |
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6.1.1.1 Profile Measurements |
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143 | (1) |
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6.1.1.2 Poole--Frenkel Effect |
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143 | (1) |
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6.1.2 Low-energy Muon Spin Rotation Spectroscopy |
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144 | (1) |
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6.1.2.1 μSR and Semiconductors |
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144 | (1) |
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6.1.3 Density Functional Theory |
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145 | (1) |
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6.2 Intrinsic Electrically Active Defects in SiC |
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146 | (7) |
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6.2.1 The Carbon Vacancy, Vc |
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147 | (5) |
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6.2.2 The Silicon Vacancy, VSi |
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152 | (1) |
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6.3 Transition Metal and Other Impurity Levels in SiC |
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153 | (6) |
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159 | (10) |
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163 | (6) |
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7 Dislocations in 4H-SiC Substrates and Epilayers |
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169 | (30) |
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169 | (1) |
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7.2 Dislocations in Bulk 4H-SiC |
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170 | (14) |
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7.2.1 Micropipes (MPs) and Closed-core Threading Screw Dislocations (TSDs) |
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170 | (1) |
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7.2.2 Basal Plane Dislocations (BPDs) |
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171 | (1) |
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7.2.3 Threading Edge Dislocations (TEDs) |
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171 | (1) |
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7.2.4 Interaction between BPDs and TEDs |
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171 | (1) |
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7.2.4.1 Hopping Frank-Read Source of BPDs |
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171 | (2) |
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7.2.5 Threading Mixed Dislocations (TMDs) in 4H-SiC |
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173 | (1) |
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7.2.5.1 Reaction Between Threading Dislocations with Burgers Vectors of -c + a and c + a Wherein the Opposite c-Components Annihilate Leaving Behind the Two a-Components |
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174 | (1) |
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7.2.5.2 Reaction Between Threading Dislocations with Burgers Vectors of -c and c + a Leaving Behind the a-Component |
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175 | (1) |
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7.2.5.3 Reaction Between Opposite-sign Threading Screw Dislocations with Burgers Vectors c and -c |
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175 | (1) |
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7.2.5.4 Nucleation of Opposite Pair of c + a Dislocations and Their Deflection |
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175 | (2) |
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7.2.5.5 Deflection of Threading c + a, c and Creation of Stacking Faults |
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177 | (3) |
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7.2.6 Prismatic Slip during PVT growth 4H-SiC Boules |
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180 | (1) |
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7.2.7 Relationship Between Local Basal Plane Bending and Basal Plane Dislocations in PVT-grown 4H-SiC Substrate Wafers |
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181 | (1) |
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7.2.8 Investigation of Dislocation Behavior at the Early Stage of PVT-grown 4H-SiC Crystals |
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181 | (3) |
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7.3 Dislocations in Homoepitaxial 4H-SiC |
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184 | (8) |
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7.3.1 Conversion of BPDs into TEDs |
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184 | (1) |
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7.3.2 Susceptibility of Basal Plane Dislocations to the Recombination-Enhanced Dislocation Glide in 4H Silicon Carbide |
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184 | (4) |
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7.3.3 Nucleation of TEDs, BPDs, and TSDs at Substrate Surface Damage |
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188 | (3) |
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7.3.4 Nucleation Mechanism of Dislocation Half-Loop Arrays in 4H-SiC Homo-Epitaxial Layers |
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191 | (1) |
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7.3.5 V- and Y-shaped Frank-type Stacking Faults |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (7) |
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195 | (1) |
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195 | (4) |
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8 Novel Theoretical Approaches for Understanding and Predicting Dislocation Evolution and Propagation |
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199 | (26) |
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199 | (1) |
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8.2 General Modeling and Simulation Approaches |
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200 | (1) |
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8.3 Continuum Dislocation Modeling Approaches |
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201 | (5) |
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8.3.1 Alexander--Haasen Model |
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201 | (1) |
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8.3.2 Continuum Dislocation Dynamics Models |
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202 | (1) |
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8.3.2.1 The Simplest Model: Straight Parallel Dislocation with the Same Line Direction |
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203 | (1) |
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8.3.2.2 The "Groma" Model: Straight Parallel Dislocations with Two Line Directions |
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203 | (1) |
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8.3.2.3 The Kroner--Nye Model for Geometrically Necessary Dislocations |
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204 | (1) |
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8.3.2.4 Three-dimensional Continuum Dislocation Dynamics (CDD) |
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204 | (2) |
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8.4 Example 1: Comparison of the Alexander--Haasen and the Groma Model |
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206 | (5) |
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8.4.1 Governing Equations |
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206 | (1) |
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8.4.2 Physical System and Model Setup |
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206 | (3) |
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8.4.3 Results and Discussion |
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209 | (2) |
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8.5 Example 2: Dislocation Flow Between Veins |
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211 | (8) |
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8.5.1 A Brief Introduction to Dislocation Patterning and the Similitude Principle |
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211 | (2) |
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8.5.2 Physical System and Model Setup |
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213 | (1) |
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8.5.3 Geometry and Initial Values |
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214 | (1) |
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8.5.4 Results and Discussion |
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215 | (4) |
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8.6 Summary and Conclusion |
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219 | (6) |
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220 | (5) |
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9 Gate Dielectrics for 4H-SiC Power Switches: Understanding the Structure and Effects of Electrically Active Point Defects at the 4H-SiC/SiO2 Interface |
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225 | (24) |
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225 | (1) |
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9.2 Electrical Impact of Traps on MOSFET Characteristics |
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225 | (12) |
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9.2.1 Sub threshold Sweep Hysteresis |
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226 | (5) |
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9.2.2 Preconditioning Measurement |
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231 | (2) |
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9.2.3 Bias Temperature Instability |
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233 | (2) |
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9.2.4 Reduced Channel Electron Mobility |
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235 | (2) |
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9.3 Microscopic Nature of Electrically Active Traps Near the Interface |
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237 | (5) |
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9.3.1 The Pbc Defect and the Subthreshold Sweep Hysteresis |
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237 | (1) |
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9.3.2 The Intrinsic Electron Trap and the Reduced MOSFET Mobility |
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238 | (2) |
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9.3.3 Point Defect Candidates for BTI |
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240 | (2) |
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9.4 Conclusions and Outlook |
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242 | (7) |
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243 | (6) |
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10 Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon Carbide as a Tailorable Metal-Semiconductor Interface |
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249 | (22) |
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249 | (1) |
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10.2 Epitaxial Graphene as a Metal |
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249 | (1) |
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10.3 Fabrication and Structuring of Epitaxial Graphene |
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250 | (3) |
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10.3.1 Epitaxial Growth by Thermal Decomposition |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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10.3.3 Structuring of Epitaxial Graphene Layers and Partial Intercalation |
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252 | (1) |
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10.4 Epitaxial Graphene as Tailorable Metal/Semiconductor Contact |
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253 | (4) |
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254 | (2) |
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256 | (1) |
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10.5 Monolithic Epitaxial Graphene Electronic Devices and Circuits |
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257 | (3) |
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10.5.1 Discrete Epitaxial Graphene Devices |
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257 | (2) |
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10.5.2 Monolithic Integrated Circuits |
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259 | (1) |
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10.6 Novel Experiments on Light-Matter Interaction Enabled by Epitaxial Graphene |
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260 | (4) |
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10.6.1 High-Frequency Operation and Ultimate Speed Limits of Schottky Diodes |
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260 | (3) |
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10.6.2 Transparent Electrical Access to SiC for Novel Quantum Technology Applications |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (7) |
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265 | (1) |
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265 | (6) |
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11 Device Processing Chain and Processing SiC in a Foundry Environment |
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271 | (48) |
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271 | (1) |
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271 | (2) |
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11.3 Process Integration of SiC MOSFETs |
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273 | (30) |
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283 | (1) |
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283 | (7) |
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11.3.3 Ion Implantation and Activation Annealing |
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290 | (3) |
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11.3.4 Oxidation and Oxide |
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293 | (3) |
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11.3.5 Post Oxidation Annealing |
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296 | (2) |
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11.3.6 Poly-Si Deposition |
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298 | (2) |
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11.3.7 Backside Thinning and Waffle Substrates |
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300 | (1) |
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11.3.8 Ohmic Contacts and Metallization |
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301 | (1) |
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11.3.9 Polyimide Deposition |
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302 | (1) |
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11.4 Commercial Foundries for Si and SiC Devices |
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303 | (3) |
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303 | (1) |
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11.4.1.1 Cost Roadmap for WBG Devices |
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303 | (2) |
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11.4.2 New Equipment and Processing Requirements |
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305 | (1) |
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11.5 Dedicated Foundries vs. Commercial Foundries |
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306 | (13) |
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307 | (12) |
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12 Unipolar Device in SiC: Diodes and MOSFETs |
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319 | (34) |
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319 | (1) |
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12.2 Unipolar Diodes -- 4H-SiC JBS Diodes |
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320 | (9) |
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12.2.1 Optimization of 4H-SiC JBS Diodes |
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323 | (1) |
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12.2.1.1 Injection from the p+ Regions for Surge Operation |
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324 | (2) |
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12.2.1.2 Trench JBS Diodes |
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326 | (1) |
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12.2.1.3 Use of Low Work Function Metal for Anode Metal |
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327 | (2) |
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12.3 Unipolar Switches: Power MOSFETs |
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329 | (17) |
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12.3.1 4H-SiC Power MOSFET Structures |
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332 | (1) |
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332 | (5) |
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337 | (5) |
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12.3.2 Advanced Power MOSFET Structures in 4H-SiC |
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342 | (1) |
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12.3.2.1 Superjunction MOSFETs in 4H-SiC |
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342 | (3) |
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12.3.2.2 Integrated JBS Diodes in 4H-SiC Power MOSFETs |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (7) |
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348 | (5) |
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13 Ultra-High-Voltage SiC Power Device |
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353 | (34) |
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14 SiC Reliability Aspects |
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387 | (46) |
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15 Industrial Systems Using SiC Power Devices |
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433 | (34) |
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16 Special Focus on HEV and EV Applications: Activities of Automotive Industries Applying SiC Devices for Automotive Applications |
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467 | (36) |
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17 Point Defects in Silicon Carbide for Quantum Technology |
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503 | (26) |
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Part II Gallium Nitride (GaN), Diamond, and Ga2O3 |
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529 | (152) |
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18 Ammonothermal and HVPE Bulk Growth of GaN |
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531 | (24) |
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19 GaN on Si: Epitaxy and Devices |
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555 | (28) |
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20 Growth of Single Crystal Diamond Wafers for Future Device Applications |
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583 | (50) |
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21 Diamond Wafer Technology, Epitaxial Growth, and Device Processing |
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633 | (26) |
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22 Gallium Oxide: Material Properties and Devices |
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659 | (22) |
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