Aluminum doping of epitaxial silicon carbide

• Intentional doping of aluminum in 4H and 6H SiC has been performed using a hot-wall CVD reactor. The dependence of aluminum incorporation on temperature, pressure, C/Si ratio, growth rate, and TMA flow has been investigated. The aluminum incorporation showed to be polarity dependent. The high aluminum incorporation on the Si-face is closely related to the carbon coverage on the SiC surface. Changes in process parameters changes the effective C/Si ratio close to the SiC surface. Increased growth rate and C/Si ratio increases the aluminum incorporation on the Si-face. Diffusion limited incorporation occurs at high growth rate. Reduced pressure increases the effective C/Si ratio, and at low growth rate, the aluminum incorporation increases initially, levels off at a critical pressure, and continues to decrease below the critical pressure. The aluminum incorporation showed to be constant in a temperature range of 50degreesC. The highest atomic concentration of aluminum observed in this study was 3 x 10(17) and 8 x 10(18) cm(-3) in Si and C-face, respectively.

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doping

growth models

chemical vapor deposition processes

hot wall epitaxy

semiconducting silicon carbide

chemical-vapor-deposition

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