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▼ [20a-E311-7] Significant effects on SiO2/4H-SiC band alignment induced by the difference of employed crystal face and post oxidation annealing processes
キーワード:4H-SiC MOS capacitor, Post-oxidation annealing, Band alignment
In this work, we compared the effect of post-oxidation annealing (POA) on the band alignment shift of Si-face and C-face 4H-SiC. For Si-face, NO-POA, which is well-known method to reduce Dit, is used. For C-face, we focused on the effect of Wet-POA as an annealing method because Wet-POA is already confirmed as an effective method for C-face MOS capacitors. After POA, we estimated conduction band offset (ΔEc) of each sample by XPS and F-N tunneling current measurements. There was an intrinsic difference of ΔEc between the Si-face and C-face 4H-SiC MOS interfaces. Moreover, the effect of POA on the band alignment shift also varied according to the crystal face. On Si-face, there was a rise of ΔEc after NO-POA and increased more with increasing NO-POA duration, whereas the NO-POA and Wet-POA on C-face induced decrease of ΔEc. Especially after Wet-POA, there was furthermore decrease of ΔEc, which was the unique effect of Wet-POA on C-face.