Low Cost Ion Implantation Process with High Heat Resistant Photoresist in Silicon Carbide Device Fabrication

Abstract

Cost of silicon carbide (SiC) wafer has been improved owing to the development of larger and higher quality wafer technologies, while the process stays long and complicated. In this paper, we propose a novel short process of ion implantation and provide the fabrication model SiC schottky barrier diodes (SiC-SBDs) devices. Currently common mask layer of ion implantation employs high heat resistant materials such as metal oxides. Because the ion is implanted to SiC wafer at high temperature between 300 °C and 800 °C due to avoid the damage of SiC crystal structure. The process using oxide layer tends to became long and complicated. On the other hand, our proposal process uses a heat resistant photoresist material as the mask instead of the oxide layer. The heat resistant photoresist is applied to newly developed SP-D1000 produced by Toray Industries, Inc.. We demonstrated to fabricate model SiC-SBDs devices based on our proposal process with SP-D1000 and confirmed the device working as same as a current process.