Abstract
Silicon vertically double diffused metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (VDMOSFET) shows a great promise for low and medium power applications and is economical when compared to their compound semiconductor counterparts. A silicon power MOSFET can be optimized using a newly proposed drift layer design strategy to increase the breakdown performance. The main difference between existing standard design and the proposed design is that, the new design uses two drift layers instead of a single drift layer with a similar process complexity. Silicon VDMOSFETs are designed and optimized through process and device simulations. The performance advantages like breakdown voltage and on current have been estimated through a combination of device and process simulations. The proposed design resulted in a significant increase in breakdown voltage from 25 to 95 V. The improvement in the breakdown voltage is attributed to reduction in the intrinsic electric field due to dopant atom re-distribution. Complete process sequence for realization of the proposed design is described. Overall system advantages gained from the implementation of newly proposed structure and process sequence in Si power devices have also been demonstrated through simulations.
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