Insight into the Degradation Phenomenon in SiC Devices from Ab Initio Calculations of the Electronic Structure of Single and Multiple Stacking Faults

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 433-436, Issue , 2003, Pages 907-912

  Lindefelt, Ulf ^a,b,c   Iwata, Hisaomi ^a,b   Öberg, Sven ^d   Briddon, Patrick R ^e  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^d LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degradation; Dislocations; Electronic Polarization; Quantum Wells; Stacking Faults

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; INCLUSIONS; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILICON CARBIDE; STACKING FAULTS;

ELECTRONIC POLARIZATION;

BIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0242580956     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.433-436.907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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