Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jun Kojima

Eiichi Okuno

Takeshi Endo

Rajesh Kumar

Hideo Matsuki

Yoshiyuki Hisada

Yoshihito Mitsuoka

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Kunihiko Hara

Hiroki Nakamura

Mitsuhiro Kataoka

Kazukuni Hara

Shoichi Onda

Tomohisa Kato

Ayumu Adachi

Fusao Hirose

Koichi Nishikawa

Yasuo Kitou

Kazutoshi Kojima

Yuuichirou Tokuda

A silicon carbide single crystal includes nitrogen as a dopant and aluminum as a dopant. A nitrogen concentration is 2&#xd7;10cmor higher and a ratio of an aluminum concentration to the nitrogen concentration is within a range of 5% to 40%.

Silicon carbide single crystal and manufacturing method of the same

An apparatus for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal grows the silicon carbide single crystal on a seed crystal by supplying a material gas from below the seed crystal. The apparatus includes a heating container and a base located in the heating container. The seed crystal is mounded on the base. The apparatus further includes a first inlet for causing a purge gas to flow along an inner wall surface of the heating container, a purge gas source for supplying the purge gas to the first inlet, a second inlet for causing the purge gas to flow along an outer wall surface of the base, and a mechanism for supporting the base and for supplying the purge gas to the base from below the base.

Apparatus for manufacturing silicon carbide single crystal

A device for manufacturing a SiC single crystal includes: a raw material gas introduction pipe; a raw material gas heat chamber having a raw material gas supply passage for heating the gas in the passage; a reaction chamber having a second sidewall, an inner surface of which contacts an outer surface of a first sidewall of the heat chamber, and having a bottom, on which a SiC single crystal substrate is arranged; and a discharge pipe in a hollow center of the raw material gas heat chamber. The supply passage is disposed between an outer surface of the discharge pipe and an inner surface of the first sidewall. The discharge pipe discharges a residual gas, which is not used for crystal growth of the SiC single crystal.

Device for manufacturing sic single crystal and method for the same

A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a principal surface and a backside surface; a drift layer disposed on the principal surface; a base region disposed on the drift layer; a source region disposed on the base region; a surface channel layer disposed on both of the drift layer and the base region for connecting between the source region and the drift layer; a gate insulation film disposed on the surface channel layer and including a high dielectric constant film; a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulation film; a source electrode disposed on the source region; and a backside electrode disposed on the backside surface.

Silicon carbide semiconductor device

Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate comprising silicon carbide of a first conductivity type; a silicon carbide epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type; a first semiconductor region formed on the semiconductor substrate and comprising silicon carbide of a second conductivity type; a second semiconductor region formed on the first semiconductor region, comprising silicon carbide of the first conductivity type and separated from the semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type by the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region formed on the semiconductor region, connected to the semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor region, comprising silicon carbide of the first conductivity type, and of higher resistance than the semiconductor substrate; and a gate electrode formed on the third semiconductor region via an insulating layer; wherein the third semiconductor layer is depleted when no voltage is being applied to the gate electrode so that said semiconductor device has a normally OFF characteristic.

Openings are formed in a laminate of a polycrystalline silicon film and an LTO film on a channel layer. While the laminate is used as a mask, impurities are implanted into a place in the channel layer which is assigned to a source region. Also, impurities are implanted into another place in the channel layer which is assigned to a portion of a second gate region. A portion of the polycrystalline silicon film which extends from the related opening is thermally oxidated. The LTO film and the oxidated portion of the polycrystalline silicon film are removed. While a remaining portion of the polycrystalline silicon film is used as a mask, impurities are implanted into a place in the channel layer which is assigned to the second gate region. Accordingly, the source region and the second gate region are formed on a self-alignment basis which suppresses a variation in channel length.

Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A surface portion of a p type base region is made amorphous as an amorphous layer by implanting nitrogen ions which serve as impurities and ions which do not serve as impurities. After that, the amorphous layer is crystallized to have a specific crystal structure through solid-phase growth while disposing the impurities at lattice positions of the crystal structure. As a result, a surface channel layer is formed with a high activation rate of the impurities.

Method of manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device with high activation rate of impurities

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Iwakura, Japan

Jun Kojima