具有高击穿电压的AlN背势垒AlGaN/GaN/AlN HEMT材料

采用金属有机化学气相沉积(MOCVD)技术在4英寸(1英寸=2.54 cm)蓝宝石衬底上制备了1.2μm厚的AlN背势垒的AlGaN/GaN/AlN双异质结高电子迁移率晶体管(HEMT)材料,其AlGaN势垒层表面粗糙度(RMS)、二维电子气(2DEG)迁移率以及HEMT材料的弯曲度都较为接近于常规的高阻GaN背势垒结构的HEMT材料。由于AlN晶格常数较小,具有AlN背势垒的HEMT材料受到了更大的压应力。通过对比分析两种HEMT材料所制备的器件发现,受益于AlN背势垒层更高的禁带宽度和临界电场,由AlN背势垒HEMT材料所制备的器件三端关态击穿电压为常规高阻GaN背势垒HEMT器件的1.5倍,缓冲层漏电流则较常规高阻GaN背势垒HEMT器件低2～3个数量级。     

AlGaN/AlN/GaN high-power microwave HEMT

In this letter, a novel heterojunction AlGaN/AlN/GaN high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) is discussed. Contrary to normal HEMTs, the insertion of the very thin AlN interfacial layer (~1 nm) maintains high mobility at high sheet charge densities by increasing the effective ΔE_C and decreasing alloy scattering. Devices based on this structure exhibited good DC and RF performance. A high peak current 1 A/mm at V_GS=2 V was obtained and an output power density of 8.4 W/mm with a power added efficiency of 28% at 8 GHz was achieved     

AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructures grown on Si substrate by plasma-assisted MBE for MSM UV photodetector applications

The AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructures were successfully grown on silicon substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). High purity gallium (7N) and aluminum (6N5) were used to grow GaN and AlN, respectively. The structural and optical properties of the samples have been investigated by high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD), photoluminescence (PL), Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED), dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (DF STEM), and high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF STEM). HR-XRD measurement showed that the sample has a typical diffraction pattern of hexagonal AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructures. Raman spectra revealed all four Raman-active modes, i.e., GaN-like E₂ (H), AlN-like A₁ (TO), AlN-like E₂ (H), and AlN-like A₁ (LO) inside the AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructures. Good thickness uniformity of the layers and high-quality hetero-structures without cracking were confirmed by TEM, SAED, DF STEM and HAADF STEM. The fabricated AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructures based metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) for the UV photodetector shows a rise and fall of photoresponses, suggesting that the AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructures have good carrier transport and crystallinity properties.     

Al/AlN/Si MIS结构的电学性质

用S i(111)上M OCVD生长的晶态A lN制备出性能良好的A l/A lN/S i(111)M IS结构,用C-V技术首次系统研究了A l/A lN/S iM IS结构的电学性质。用A l/A lN/S iM IS结构的C-V技术测量了A lN的极化特性,得出A lN层的极化强度为-0.000 92 C/m2;揭示了A lN/S i界面存在连续分布的载流子陷阱态,给出了陷阱态密度在S i禁带中随能量的分布;还观察到A lN界面层存在Et-Ev(A lN)=2.55 eV的分立陷阱中心。     

AlGaN/AlN/GaN肖特基二极管的电学性能

利用金属有机化学气相淀积(MOCVD)方法生长的AlGaN/AlN/GaN/蓝宝石材料制备了AlGaN肖特基二极管.器件的肖特基接触和欧姆接触分别为Ti/Pt和Ti/Al/Ti/Au,均采用电子束蒸发的方法沉积.AlGaN表面欧姆接触的比接触电阻率为7.48×10-4Ω/cm2,器件的I-V测试表明该AlGaN肖特基二极管具有较好的整流特性.根据器件的正向,I-V特性计算得到器件的势垒高度和理想因子分别为0.57eV和4.83.将器件在300℃中温退火,器件的电学性能有所改善.     

AlGaN/AlN/GaN肖特基二极管的电学性能

利用金属有机化学气相淀积(MOCVD)方法生长的AlGaN/AlN/GaN/蓝宝石材料制备了AlGaN肖特基二极管.器件的肖特基接触和欧姆接触分别为Ti/Pt和Ti/Al/Ti/Au,均采用电子束蒸发的方法沉积.AlGaN表面欧姆接触的比接触电阻率为7.48×10-4Ω/cm2,器件的I-V测试表明该AlGaN肖特基二极管具有较好的整流特性.根据器件的正向,I-V特性计算得到器件的势垒高度和理想因子分别为0.57eV和4.83.将器件在300℃中温退火,器件的电学性能有所改善.     

AlN薄膜覆Al基板的物理特性

利用磁控溅射系统在6061铝材上制备了3μm的AlN薄膜。XRD、椭偏测试及耐压测试结果表明,AlN膜为具有良好取向的多晶薄膜,击穿电压高达100V/μm。利用自动划痕仪对AlN膜进行剥离实验,临界载荷为6N左右。AlN和铝基体间的结合主要是物理吸附和机械锚合。用有限元方法对基于AlN膜/Al热沉的LED(发光二极管)封装结构的散热性能进行了分析,模型的内通道热阻约2K/W。     

增强型自对准源漏区AlN/GaN/AlN 氮极化金属绝缘半导体场效应晶体管的静态特性与短沟道效应的研究

This paper aims to simulate the I–V static characteristic of the enhancement-mode(E-mode) Npolar Ga N metal–insulator–semiconductor field effect transistor(MISFET) with self-aligned source/drain regions.Firstly, with SILVACO TCAD device simulation, the drain–source current as a function of the gate–source voltage is calculated and the dependence of the drain–source current on the drain–source voltage in the case of different gate–source voltages for the device with a 0.62 m gate length is investigated. Secondly, a comparison is made with the experimental report. Lastly, the transfer characteristic with different gate lengths and different buffer layers has been performed. The results show that the simulation is in accord with the experiment at the gate length of 0.62 m and the short channel effect becomes pronounced as gate length decreases. The E-mode will not be held below a100 nm gate length unless both transversal scaling and vertical scaling are being carried out simultaneously.     

G波段AlN/GaN HEMT外延材料

<正>南京电子器件研究所基于MOCVD平台,在100 mm SiC半绝缘衬底上,提出恒压式气流吹扫和台阶式流场调控技术分别应用于生长AlN/GaN异质结界面和AlN势垒层,显著改善了AlN/GaN异质结界面不清晰、Al原子表面扩散长度偏低的外延难题,研制出高性能AlN/GaN HEMT外延材料。图1为AFM 5μm×5μm范围下的表面形貌,势垒层表面平整,原子台阶明显,RMS=0.3 nm,且无明显缺陷。图2为     

Study on mobility enhancement in MOVPE-grown AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMT structures using a thin AlN interfacial layer

Al_0.26Ga_0.74N/AlN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) structures with AlN interfacial layers of various thicknesses were grown on 100-mm-diameter sapphire substrates by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy, and their structural and electrical properties were characterized. A sample with an optimum AlN layer thickness of 1.0 nm showed a highly enhanced Hall mobility (μ_Hall) of 1770 cm²/Vs with a low sheet resistance (ρ_s) of 365 Ω/sq. (2DEG density n_s = 1.0 × 10¹³/cm²) at room temperature compared with those of a sample without the AlN interfacial layer (μ_Hall = 1287 cm²/Vs, ρ_s = 539 Ω/sq., and n_s = 0.9 × 10¹³/cm²). Electron transport properties in AlGaN/AlN/GaN structures were theoretically studied, and the calculated results indicated that the insertion of an AlN layer into the AlGaN/GaN heterointerface can significantly enhance the 2DEG mobility due to the reduction of alloy disorder scattering. HEMTs were successfully fabricated and characterized. It was confirmed that AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMTs with the optimum AlN layer thickness show superior DC properties compared with conventional AlGaN/GaN HEMTs.     

AIN、GaN立方晶体的静态性质和AIN/GaN异质结的价带偏移

采用LMTO能带从头计算方法,计算了闪锌矿（立方）结构AIN和GaN的静态性质;用平均键能方法,预言了AlN与GaN自由应变生长、以AlN为衬底和以GaN为衬底等三种不同应变状态下AlN／GaN应变层异质结的△Ev值;最后,采用超原胞（AIN）n（GaN）n（001）,（n=1,3,5）界面自洽计算方法,考察了超晶格中平均键能Em的“对齐”程度和验证了价带偏移△Ev计算结果的准确性。     

A surface-potential-based model for AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMT

A new surface-potential-based model for AlGaN/AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistor(HEMT) is proposed in this paper. Since the high polarization effects caused by AlN interlayer favorably influence the two dimensional electron gas(2DEG) and scattering mechanisms, we first add spontaneous and piezoelectric charge terms to the source equation of surface-potential, and a mobility model for AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMT is rewritten. Compared with TCAD simulations, the DC characteristics of AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMT are faithfully reproduced by the new model.     

Hydrogen sensors based on AlGaN/AlN/GaN HEMT

Pt/AlGaN/AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) were fabricated and characterized for hydrogen sensing. Pt and Ti/Al/Ni/Au metals were evaporated to form the Schottky contact and the ohmic contact, respectively. The sensors can be operated in either the field effect transistor (FET) mode or the Schottky diode mode. Current changes and time dependence of the sensors under the FET and diode modes were compared. When the sensor was operated in the FET mode, the sensor can have larger current change of 8 mA, but its sensitivity is only about 0.2. In the diode mode, the current change was very small under the reverse bias but it increased greatly and gradually saturated at 0.8 mA under the forward bias. The sensor had much higher sensitivity when operated in the diode mode than in the FET mode. The oxygen in the air could accelerate the desorption of the hydrogen and the recovery of the sensor.     

AlN/GaN Insulated-Gate HFETs Using Cat-CVD SiN

The authors fabricated SiN/AlN/GaN metal–insulator–semiconductor heterostructure field-effect transistors (MIS-HFETs) using SiN passivation by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (Cat-CVD). Cat-CVD SiN increased the electron density of AlN/GaN HFETs by compensating the surface depletion of the two-dimensional electron gas. The MIS-HFETs had a maximum drain current density of 0.95 A/mm and a peak extrinsic transconductance of 211 mS/mm. A current-gain cutoff frequency of 107 GHz and maximum oscillation frequency of 171 GHz were obtained for the 60- and 70-nm-gate devices, respectively.     

磁控溅射AlN介质MIS栅结构的AlGaN/GaN HEMT

报道了一种X波段输出功率密度达10.4W/mm的SiC衬底AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT。器件研制中采用了MIS结构、凹槽栅以及场板,其中MIS结构中采用了磁控溅射的AlN介质作为绝缘层。采用MIS结构后,器件击穿电压由80V提高到了180V以上,保证了器件能够实现更高的工作电压。在8GHz、55V的工作电压下,研制的1mm栅宽AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT输出功率达到了10.4W,此时器件的功率增益和功率附加效率分别达到了6.56dB和39.2%。     

Structural and optical properties of AlN/Si system

Aluminum nitride (AlN) is a wide band gap III–V semiconductor material which is often used for optical applications. Thin films of aluminum nitride were deposited by ion beam sputtering in an Ar–N₂ atmosphere on Si (1 0 0). For film preparation, the N₂ flow was kept at 5 sccm and the ratio of N₂ and Ar was 4:1. The films have been characterized by Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXRD), X-ray Reflectometry (XRR), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and optical spectroscopy. GIXRD shows that the structure of the as-deposited sample of AlN is hexagonal. It is observed that neither the ion-beam-induced dissociation of the nitride film nor the enhanced nitrogen diffusion across the interface takes place after Au ion irradiation. XRR was used to determine the thickness of the films. The reflectance of the irradiated films increases in the range 200–280 nm. UV–vis spectra were taken in Kubelka Munk (KM) units for as-deposited and irradiated samples. The band gap was calculated for both types of samples, which shows that the band gap of irradiated films of aluminum nitride decreases due to the increase in metal content at the surface. AFM confirms that the roughness of aluminum nitride increases by irradiation.     

The influence of 1 nm AlN interlayer on properties of the Al0.3Ga0.7N/AlN/GaN HEMT structure

The sheet carrier concentrations, conduction band profiles and amount of free carriers in the barriers have been determined by solving coupled Schrödinger and Poisson equation self-consistently for coherently grown Al_0.3Ga_0.7N/GaN and Al_0.3Ga_0.7N/AlN/GaN structures on thick GaN. The Al_0.3Ga_0.7N/GaN heterojunction structures with and without 1 nm AlN interlayer have been grown by MOCVD on sapphire substrate, the physical properties for these two structures have been investigated by various instruments such as Hall measurement and X-ray diffraction. By comparison of the theoretical and experimental results, we demonstrate that the sheet carrier concentration and the electrons mobility would be improved by the introduction of an AlN interlayer for Al_0.3Ga_0.7N/GaN structure. Mechanisms for the increasing of the sheet carrier concentration and the electrons mobility will be discussed in this paper.     

InAlN/AlN/GaN HEMT电学特性仿真与分析

研究了一种新型GaN基HEMT结构,即InAlN/AlN/GaN异质结层结构,并对其直流特性以及频率特性进行了仿真。通过理论分析,结合TCAD软件,与常规AlGaN/AlN/GaNHEMT进行对比。对栅长为1μm的器件进行仿真,结果表明,器件的最大跨导为450mS/mm,最大电流密度为2A/mm,电流增益截止频率fT=15GHz,最高振荡频率fmax=35GHz。