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MDPI, Micromachines, 5(14), p. 1028, 2023

DOI: 10.3390/mi14051028

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Research on Temperature Dependence of Single-Event Burnout in Power MOSFETs

Journal article published in 2023 by Chen Wang ORCID, Yi Liu, Changqing Xu ORCID, Xinfang Liao, Dongdong Chen ORCID, Zhenyu Wu
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Power MOSFETs are found to be very vulnerable to single-event burnout (SEB) in space irradiation environments, and the military components generally require that devices could operate reliably as the temperature varies from 218 K to 423 K (−55 °C to 150 °C); thus, the temperature dependence of single-event burnout (SEB) in power MOSFETs should be investigated. Our simulation results showed that the Si power MOSFETs are more tolerant to SEB at a higher temperature at the lower LET (10 MeV∙cm2/mg) due to the decrease of the impact ionization rate, which is in good agreement with the previous research. However, the state of the parasitic BJT plays a primary role in the SEB failure mechanism when the LET value is greater than 40 MeV∙cm2/mg, which exhibits a completely different temperature dependence from that of 10 MeV∙cm2/mg. Results indicate that with the temperature increasing, the lower difficulty to turn on the parasitic BJT and the increasing current gain all make it easier to build up the regenerative feedback process responsible for SEB failure. As a result, the SEB susceptibility of power MOSFETs increases as ambient temperature increases when the LET value is greater than 40 MeV∙cm2/mg.