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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1997
Christopher Harris, Sollentuna, SE;
Andrei Konstantinov, Linkoping, SE;
Erik Janzen, Borensberg, SE;
ABB Research Ltd., Zurich, CH;
Abstract
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor layer of SiC and an insulating layer thereon for insulating the SiC layer with respect to a metal plate constituting a gate and connectable to a voltage for creating a conducting surface channel at a SiC layer-insulating layer interface, wherein at least a portion of the insulating layer closest to the interface is made of a crystalline material which is substantially lattice-matched to SiC and has substantially the same coefficient of thermal expansion as SiC; and wherein the material has AlN as the only component or as a major component of an alloy with insulating properties.