A low p-n built-in potential (1.75 V) makes 3C-SiC an attractive choice for medium voltage bipolar or charge balanced devices. Until recently, most 3C-SiC had been grown on Si, and power device fabrication had therefore been hindered by issues such as high defect density and limited processing temperature, while devices were necessarily limited to lateral structures. In this work, we present the fabrication and characterisation of a vertical PiN diode using bulk 3C-SiC material. A p-type ohmic contact was obtained on Al implanted regions with a specific contact resistance ~10 -3 Ω.cm 2 . The fabricated PiN diode has a low forward voltage drop of 2.7 V at 1000 A/cm 2 , and the on-off ratio at ±3 V is as high as 10 9 . An ideality factor of 1.83-1.99 was achieved, and a blocking voltage of ~110 V was observed using a singlezone junction termination design.
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