• DocumentCode
    2743859
  • Title

    AlGaN/GaN MODFETs with low ohmic contact resistances by source/drain n+ re-growth

  • Author

    Wu, Y.F. ; Kapolnek, D. ; Kozodoy, P. ; Thibeault, B. ; Keller, S. ; Keller, B.P. ; DenBaars, S.P. ; Mishra, U.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    8-11 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    431
  • Lastpage
    434
  • Abstract
    n+ regrown source-drain regions have been used for AlGaN/GaN MODFETs to obtain a low-resistance ohmic contact and clear-cut ohmic boundaries which will potentially facilitate fabrication of deep submicron-gate devices. The process consists: 1. Formation of the SiO 2 re-growth mask by E-beam evaporation and lift-off; 2. Removal of the AlGaN layer in the ohmic region by RIE; 3. n+ GaN re-growth in the MOCVD reactor; 4. Ohmic metal deposition and annealing. A transfer ohmic contact resistance of 0.44 Ω-mm was achieved. Much improved device performance was obtained with the new ohmic scheme over the conventional scheme with the same metalisation
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; contact resistance; gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; ohmic contacts; semiconductor device metallisation; AlGaN-GaN; AlGaN/GaN MODFET; MOCVD; RIE; SiO2 mask; annealing; deep submicron gate device; e-beam evaporation; fabrication; lift-off; metallisation; ohmic boundary; ohmic contact resistance; ohmic metal deposition; source/drain n+ regrowth; Aluminum gallium nitride; Annealing; Contact resistance; Fabrication; Gallium nitride; HEMTs; Inductors; MOCVD; MODFETs; Ohmic contacts;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compound Semiconductors, 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7503-0556-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCS.1998.711683
  • Filename
    711683