Technical background
Nineteen fifty-three, Beta (β-Particle) particle that utilizes isotope decay to produce can produce electron hole pair in semiconductor by Rappaport research discovery, and this phenomenon is called as β-Voltaic Effect.Soon afterwards, first Elgin-Kidde is used in power supply supply side by β-Voltaic Effect in nineteen fifty-seven, and successfully experiment produces first radioisotope micro battery β-Voltaic Battery.Since 1989, GaN, GaP, AlGaAs, the materials such as polysilicon are utilized the material as β-Voltaic battery in succession.Along with the preparation of semiconductor material with wide forbidden band SiC and the progress of technology, 2006 start, and have in succession occurred the relevant report of the radioisotope micro battery based on SiC on both at home and abroad.
Document " APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 88, 033506 (2006) < < Demonstration of a 4H SiC betavoltaic cell > > " introduced the M.V.S.Chandrashekhar by USA New York Cornell university, C.I.Tomas, Hui Li, the people such as M.G.Spencer and Amit Lal have proposed silit pn eliminant nuclear battery, as shown in Figure 1, this pn eliminant nuclear battery comprises radioactive isotope power supply 3 from top to bottom successively, Ohm contact electrode 14, the highly doped SiC layer 6 of N-shaped, the low-doped SiC layer 8 of p-type, the highly doped SiC layer 9 of p-type and p-type ohmic contact layer 12.
Document " APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 88, 064101 (2006) < < Demonstration of a tadiation resistant, hight efficiency SiC betavoltaic > > " introduced the C.J.Eiting by New Mexico Qynergy Corporation, V.Krishnamoorthy, and S.Rodgers, the people such as the J.David Roberston and John Brockman of T.George and U.S. Colombia University of Missouri have proposed silit p-i-n eliminant nuclear battery jointly, as shown in Figure 2, this p-i-n eliminant nuclear battery comprises radioactive isotope power supply 3 from top to bottom successively, p-type ohmic contact layer 12, highly doped p-type SiC layer 9, p-type SiC layer 11, intrinsic i layer 10, highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate 6, Ohm contact electrode 7.In this structure, highly doped p-type SiC layer forms by isoepitaxial growth, and its doping content is often not high, and Built-in potential is corresponding lower, and brings difficulty can to the preparation of p-type Ohmic contact.
In Chinese patent CN 101325093A, disclose by Zhang Lin, the Schottky junction type nuclear cell based on SiC that the people such as Guo Hui propose, avoided the preparation of above-mentioned p-type Ohmic contact, as shown in Figure 3, this Schottky junction type nuclear cell comprises bonded layer 1, schottky metal layer 13, SiO from top to bottom successively
2 passivation layer 4, low-doped N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 5, highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate 6, Ohm contact electrode 7.But in this structure, low-doped N-shaped epitaxial loayer forms by involuntary doped epitaxial growth, and doping content is higher, and the width of depletion region obtaining is less than normal, and the charge carrier of generation can not all be collected, and device open-circuit voltage diminishes, and energy conversion efficiency reduces.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to avoid the deficiency of above-mentioned prior art, silicon carbide Schottky junction type nuclear battery of a kind of I layer vanadium doping and preparation method thereof is proposed, to reduce the carrier concentration of I layer, increase width of depletion region, improve the collection rate of the electron hole pair producing, and then improve open-circuit voltage and the energy conversion efficiency of device.
For achieving the above object, the silicon carbide Schottky junction type nuclear battery of I layer vanadium doping provided by the invention, comprises N-shaped Ohm contact electrode 8, N-shaped SiC substrate print 7, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, SiO from bottom to top successively
2 passivation layer 5, schottky metal contact layer 4, Schottky contact electrode 3, bonded layer 2 and radioactive isotope power supply layer 1, is characterized in that: the doping content of N-shaped SiC substrate print 7 is 1 * 10
18~7 * 10
18cm
-3, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6 is to be 2000KeV~2500KeV by Implantation Energy, dosage is 5 * 10
13~1 * 10
15cm
-2vanadium ion to form doping content be 1 * 10
13~5 * 10
14cm
-3.
For achieving the above object, the method for making of the silicon carbide Schottky junction type nuclear battery of I layer vanadium doping provided by the invention, comprises the steps:
(1) in doping content, be 1 * 10
18~7 * 10
18cm
-3highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print on, epitaxial growth thickness is 3um~5um, nitrating concentration is 1 * 10
15~5 * 10
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer;
(2) on initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer, carrying out Implantation Energy is 2000KeV~2500KeV again, and implantation dosage is 5 * 10
13~1 * 10
15cm
-2vanadium ion inject, thermal annealing 20~40 minutes under the high temperature of 1450 ℃~1650 ℃ then, and then to obtain doping content be 1 * 10
13~5 * 10
14cm
-3n-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer;
(3) to doping content, be 1 * 10
13~5 * 10
14cm
-3n-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carry out dry-oxygen oxidation, form SiO
2passivation layer;
(4) use reactive ion etching method at the back-etching SiC of N-shaped SiC substrate layer, electron beam evaporation Ni/Cr/Au metal level, at 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, in nitrogen atmosphere, annealing forms Ohm contact electrode;
(5) at SiO
2the centre of passivation layer utilizes wet etching to go out Schottky contacts window, and on this window and the SiO of window periphery
2on passivation layer, the translucent high barrier schottky metal Ni of deposit or Pt or Au, peel off and form respectively schottky metal contact layer and Schottky contact electrode;
(6) on Schottky contact electrode, deposited by electron beam evaporation Cr/Au forms bonded layer;
(7) on schottky metal contact layer, plate radioactive isotope power supply Ni-63 layer, complete the making of the silicon carbide Schottky junction type nuclear battery of I layer vanadium doping.
The present invention compared with prior art tool has the following advantages:
(1) the present invention is owing to adopting silicon carbide-based schottky junction structure, rather than p-n junction or p-i-n structure, and technique is simply easy to realize.
(2) the present invention is owing to adopting translucent high barrier schottky metal contact layer, not only improved nuclear battery open-circuit voltage but also effectively reduced metal level to the stopping of low energy incident particle, the energy conversion efficiency of nuclear battery is obviously improved.
(3) the silicon carbide Schottky junction type nuclear battery that the present invention makes, because I layer is to adopt nitrating epitaxial growth, then epitaxial loayer being carried out to vanadium ion injection again compensates the free carrier on epitaxial loayer energy level, therefore the charge carrier doping content of I layer is extremely low, increase width of depletion region, improve the collection rate of the electron hole pair producing, and then improve open-circuit voltage and the energy conversion efficiency of device;
Embodiment
With reference to Fig. 4, nuclear battery of the present invention comprises N-shaped Ohm contact electrode 8, N-shaped SiC substrate print 7, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, SiO
2passivation layer 5, schottky metal contact layer 4, Schottky contact electrode 3, bonded layer 2 and radioactive isotope power supply layer 1, wherein the doping content of N-shaped SiC substrate print 7 is 1 * 10
18~7 * 10
18cm
-3, its back side is that by thickness, to be divided the N-shaped Ohm contact electrode 8 of the Ni/Cr/Au alloy composition of 200nm/50nm/100nm, front be that thickness is 3um~5um, doping content is 1 * 10
13~5 * 10
14cm
-3n-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, this N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6 injects formation by vanadium ion, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6 left and right tops are SiO
2passivation layer 5, is Schottky contacts metal level 4 and Schottky contact electrode 3 directly over N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, and the top, left and right of Schottky contact electrode 3 is bonded layer 2, is isotope source layer 1 directly over Schottky contacts metal level 4.
With reference to Fig. 5, the method for making of nuclear battery of the present invention provides following three kinds of embodiment.
Embodiment 1
The 1st step, extension N-shaped epitaxial loayer on the highly doped N-shaped substrate of SiC print, as Fig. 5 a.
Selecting doping content is 1 * 10
18cm
-3highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print 7, after cleaning, on highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print, epitaxial growth thickness is 4um, the initial N-shaped epitaxial loayer of nitrogen ion doping, its doping content is 1 * 10
15cm
-3, epitaxial temperature is 1570 ℃, and pressure is 100mbar, and reacting gas is silane and propane, and its flow is respectively 50sccm and 150sccm, and carrier gas is pure hydrogen, and impurity source is liquid nitrogen.
The 2nd step: be 1 * 10 to nitrating concentration
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carries out vanadium ion injection, as Fig. 5 b.
(2.1) to nitrating concentration, be 1 * 10
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carry out vanadium ion injection, its vanadium ion injection condition is: the energy of Implantation is 2200KeV, implantation dosage is 5 * 10
13cm
-2, to guarantee that the maximum concentration of vanadium ion is greater than the doping content of the epitaxial loayer after nitrating;
(2.2) the N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer after Implantation is carried out to high-temperature thermal annealing, make to inject ion redistribution, reduce lattice damage, and then to obtain doping content be 1 * 10
13cm
-3low-doped N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, the condition of its high-temperature thermal annealing is: annealing temperature is 1450 ℃, annealing time is 40 minutes.
The 3rd step: be 1 * 10 in doping content
13cm
-3on N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer, form SiO
2passivation layer, as Fig. 5 c.
At 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6 is carried out to the dry-oxygen oxidation of two hours, form SiO
2passivation layer 5.
The 4th step: form Ohmic contact at substrate back, as Fig. 5 d.
(4.1) the SiC layer that is 0.5um by reactive ion etching method at the back-etching thickness of N-shaped SiC substrate 7;
(4.2) 7 back side deposited by electron beam evaporation thickness of the N-shaped SiC substrate after etching are respectively the Ni/Cr/Au of 200nm/50nm/200nm;
(4.3), at 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, in nitrogen atmosphere, whole sample annealing is formed to Ohm contact electrode 8 for two minutes.
The 5th step: deposit schottky metal contact layer and Schottky contact electrode, as Fig. 5 e.
(5.1) the HF acid corrosion that employing concentration is 5% 10 seconds, at SiO
2the centre position of passivation layer 3 erodes away Schottky contacts window;
(5.2) at the SiO of the window eroding away and window periphery
2the Ni that on passivation layer, d.c. sputtering deposition thickness is 5nm;
(5.3) by ultrasound wave, peel off respectively and form schottky metal contact layer 4 at described window, at the SiO of described window periphery
2on passivation layer, form Schottky contact electrode 3;
The 6th step: make bonded layer on Schottky contact electrode, as Fig. 5 f.
On Schottky contact electrode 3, first deposited by electron beam evaporation thickness is respectively 10nm/200nm Cr/Au, then is peeled off and formed bonded layer 2 by ultrasound wave.
The 7th step: power on and plate radioactive isotope power supply Ni-63 layer 1 at schottky metal contact layer 4, as Fig. 5 g.
Embodiment 2
Step 1: extension N-shaped epitaxial loayer on the highly doped N-shaped substrate of SiC print, as Fig. 5 a.
Selecting doping content is 5 * 10
18cm
-3highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print 7, after cleaning, on highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print, epitaxial growth thickness is 3um, the initial N-shaped epitaxial loayer of nitrogen ion doping, its doping content is 5 * 10
15cm
-3, epitaxial temperature is 1570 ℃, pressure 100mbar, and reacting gas is silane and propane, and its flow is respectively 50sccm and 150sccm, and carrier gas is pure hydrogen, and impurity source is liquid nitrogen.
Step 2: be 5 * 10 to nitrating concentration
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carries out vanadium ion injection, as Fig. 5 b.
(2.1) to nitrating concentration, be 5 * 10
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carry out vanadium ion injection, its vanadium ion injection condition is: the energy of Implantation is 2000KeV, implantation dosage is 1 * 10
15cm
-2, to guarantee that the maximum concentration of vanadium ion is greater than the doping content of the epitaxial loayer after nitrating;
(2.2) the N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer after Implantation is carried out to high-temperature thermal annealing, make to inject ion redistribution, reduce lattice damage, and then to obtain doping content be 5 * 10
14cm
-3low-doped N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, the condition of its high-temperature thermal annealing is: annealing temperature is 1550 ℃, annealing time is 40 minutes.
Step 3: be 5 * 10 in assorted concentration
14cm
-3on N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer, form SiO
2passivation layer, as Fig. 5 c.
At 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6 is carried out to the dry-oxygen oxidation of two hours, form SiO
2passivation layer 5.
The 4th step: form Ohmic contact at substrate back, as Fig. 5 d.
(4.1) the SiC layer that is 0.5um by reactive ion etching method at the back-etching thickness of N-shaped SiC substrate 7;
(4.2) 7 back side deposited by electron beam evaporation thickness of the N-shaped SiC substrate after etching are respectively the Ni/Cr/Au of 200nm/50nm/200nm;
(4.3), at 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, in nitrogen atmosphere, whole sample annealing is formed to Ohm contact electrode 8 for two minutes.
The 5th step: deposit schottky metal contact layer and Schottky contact electrode, as Fig. 5 e.
(5.1) the HF acid corrosion that employing concentration is 5% 10 seconds, at SiO
2the centre position of passivation layer 3 erodes away Schottky contacts window;
(5.2) at the SiO of the window eroding away and window periphery
2the Pt that on passivation layer, d.c. sputtering deposition thickness is 10nm;
(5.3) by ultrasound wave, peel off respectively and form schottky metal contact layer 4 at described window, at the SiO of described window periphery
2on passivation layer, form Schottky contact electrode 3;
The 6th step: make bonded layer on Schottky contact electrode, as Fig. 5 f.
On Schottky contact electrode 3, first deposited by electron beam evaporation thickness is respectively 10nm/200nm Cr/Au, then is peeled off and formed bonded layer 2 by ultrasound wave.
The 7th step: radioactive isotope power supply Ni-63 layer 1 in electroless plating on schottky metal contact layer 4, as Fig. 5 g.
Embodiment 3
Steps A: extension N-shaped epitaxial loayer on the highly doped N-shaped substrate of SiC print, as Fig. 5 a.
Selecting doping content is 7 * 10
18cm
-3highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print 7, after cleaning, on highly doped N-shaped SiC substrate print, epitaxial growth thickness is 5um, the initial N-shaped epitaxial loayer of nitrogen ion doping, its doping content is 2 * 10
15cm
-3, epitaxial temperature is 1570 ℃, pressure 100mbar, and reacting gas is silane and propane, and its flow is respectively 50sccm and 150sccm, and carrier gas is pure hydrogen, and impurity source is liquid nitrogen.
Step B: be 2 * 10 to nitrating concentration
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carries out vanadium ion injection, as Fig. 5 b.
(B1) to nitrating concentration, be 2 * 10
15cm
-3initial N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer carry out vanadium ion injection, its vanadium ion injection condition is: the energy of Implantation is 2500KeV, implantation dosage is 1 * 10
14cm
-2, to guarantee that the maximum concentration of vanadium ion is greater than the doping content of the epitaxial loayer after nitrating;
(B2) the N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer after Implantation is carried out to high-temperature thermal annealing, make to inject ion redistribution, reduce lattice damage, and then to obtain doping content be 5 * 10
13cm
-3low-doped N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6, the condition of its high-temperature thermal annealing is: annealing temperature is 1650 ℃, annealing time is 20 minutes.
Step C: be 5 * 10 in assorted concentration
13cm
-3on N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer, form SiO
2passivation layer, as Fig. 5 c.
At 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, N-shaped SiC epitaxial loayer 6 is carried out to the dry-oxygen oxidation of two hours, form SiO
2passivation layer 5.
D step: form Ohmic contact at substrate back, as Fig. 5 d.
(4.1) the SiC layer that is 0.5um by reactive ion etching method at the back-etching thickness of N-shaped SiC substrate 7;
(4.2) 6 back side deposited by electron beam evaporation thickness of the N-shaped SiC substrate after etching are respectively the Ni/Cr/Au of 200nm/50nm/200nm;
(4.3), at 1100 ± 50 ℃ of temperature, in nitrogen atmosphere, whole sample annealing is formed to Ohm contact electrode 8 for two minutes.
E step: deposit schottky metal contact layer and Schottky contact electrode, as Fig. 5 e.
(5.1) the HF acid corrosion that employing concentration is 5% 10 seconds, at SiO
2the centre position of passivation layer 3 erodes away Schottky contacts window;
(5.2) at the SiO of the window eroding away and window periphery
2the Au that on passivation layer, d.c. sputtering deposition thickness is 20nm;
(5.3) by ultrasound wave, peel off respectively and form schottky metal contact layer 4 at described window, at the SiO of described window periphery
2on passivation layer, form Schottky contact electrode 3;
F step: make bonded layer on Schottky contact electrode, as Fig. 5 f.
On Schottky contact electrode 3, first deposited by electron beam evaporation thickness is respectively 10nm/200nm Cr/Au, then is peeled off and formed bonded layer 2 by ultrasound wave.
G step: radioactive isotope power supply Ni-63 layer 1 in molecular plating on schottky metal contact layer 4, as Fig. 5 g.
Above-described embodiment does not form any limitation of the invention, and energy and dosage that particularly vanadium ion injects need carrier concentration according to actual needs to determine, any change under inventive concept and principle, all at the row of protection of the present invention.