Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection (Jan 2018)

The effects induced by the gamma-ray responsible for the threshold voltage shift of commercial p-channel power VDMOSFET

  • Obrenović Marija D.,
  • Pejović Milić M.,
  • Lazarević Đorđe R.,
  • Kartalović Nenad M.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/NTRP1801081O
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33, no. 1
pp. 81 – 86

Abstract

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The variations in the threshold voltage shift in p-channel power VDMOSFET during the gamma ray irradiation was investigated in the dose range from 10 to 100 Gy. The investigations were performed without the gate bias and with 5 V gate bias. The devices with 5 V gate bias exhibit a linear dependence between the threshold voltage shift and the radiation dose. The densities of radiation-induced fixed and switching traps were determined from the sub-threshold I-V characteristics using the midgap technique. It was shown that the creation of fixed traps is dominant during the irradiation. The possible mechanisms responsible for the fixed and switching traps creation are also analyzed in this paper. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 171007]

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