Degradation of 6HSiC MOS capacitors operated at high temperatures

Abstract

6HSiC MOS capacitors were operated at temperatures above 600K under negative bias. Enhancement of energetically shallow and deep interface states at n/p-type SiC SiO 2 structures and of a fixed charge are observed, which can partially be passivated by a hydrogen treatment. The generation and passivation of the fixed charge is explained in the framework of the “negative-bias-temperature instability” originally proposed for Si-based MOS capacitors.