2-35.Prime Grade
Prime Grade:The highest grade of a silicon carbide wafer. SEMI indicates the bulk, surface, and physical properties required to label silicon carbide wafers as “Prime Wafers”.
2-35.Prime Grade
Prime Grade:The highest grade of a silicon carbide wafer. SEMI indicates the bulk, surface, and physical properties required to label silicon carbide wafers as “Prime Wafers”.
3-12. Silicon Droplets Silicon droplets can appear as either small mounds or depressions in the wafer surface. Normally absent, but if present are largely concentrated at perimeter of wafer. If present, estimate the % of speci ed area affected.
5-6-4-1-1 SiC Schottky Power Rectifiers. 4H-SiC power Schottky diodes (with rated blocking voltages up to 1200 V and rated on-state currents up to 20 A as of this writing) are now commercially available . The basic structure of these unipolar diodes is a patterned metal [...]
2-9.(Area) Wafer Contamination Any foreign matter on the surface in localized areas which is revealed under high intensity (or diffuse) illumination as discolored, mottled, or cloudy appearance resulting from smudges, stains or water spots.
5-5-5 SiC Insulators: Thermal Oxides and MOS Technology The vast majority of semiconductor-integrated circuit chips in use today rely on silicon metal-oxide– semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), whose electronic advantages and operational device physics are summarized in Katsumata’s chapter and elsewhere . Given the extreme usefulness and success of [...]
5-4-5 SiC Crystal Dislocation Defects Table 5.2 summarizes the major known dislocation defects found in present-day commercial 4H- and 6H-SiC wafers and epilayers . Since the active regions of devices reside in epilayers, the epilayer defect content is clearly of primary importance to SiC device [...]
3-11. Particles Particles have the appearance of eyes and if present are usually concentrated at the wafer edges and not within the speci ed area. If present, count once per occurrence.Two particles within 200 microns count as one.