Abstract
The paper describes the way a semiconducting coating, such as SIPOS, controls the spread of the depletion region near the surface of simple planar high-voltage diodes. This is important to achieve the optimum breakdown performance for high-voltage devices. When an insulating oxide separates the SIPOS from the silicon, the surface layer acts as a resistive field plate and spreads a thin depletion region right across the surface at only a few volts reverse bias. Without the oxide, or if it is thin enough to be effectively transparent to electrons and holes, the depletion region spread in the surface is limited by current flow across the SIPOS silicon interface, and the depletion spread with bias becomes more like that expected for bulk silicon. For reverse biased planar diodes, with SIPOS directly over the junction, the leakage current is proportional to the voltage to the power of 0.7?0.8 when measured at temperatures where the current through the SIPOS dominates. These effects can be modelled, neglecting any effect from the p?n junction, using lateral and vertical SIPOS-silicon interface current measurement data.
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