Investigation of the Dual Implant Reverse-Conducting SuperJunction Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor
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This letter presents the Dual Implant SuperJunction (SJ) trench Reverse-Conducting (RC) Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) concept with two implanted SJ pillars in the drift region; one from the cathode side and another from the anode side. The proposed device is compatible with current manufacturing processes and enables a full SJ structure to be achieved in a 1.2kV device as alignment between the pillars is not required. Extensive Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) simulations have been performed and demonstrated that utilising this dual implantation technique can result in a 77% reduction in turn-off losses for a full SJ structure, compared to a conventional RC-IGBT. The results show that any snapback in the on-state waveform significantly increases the turn-off losses and only a deep SJ device (pillar gap < 10μm) warrants the additional processing expense.
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1558-0563
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Royal Society (DH160139)
Technology Strategy Board (102878)