Micromachines (Jun 2023)

In Situ H-Radical Surface Treatment on Aluminum Gallium Nitride for High-Performance Aluminum Gallium Nitride/Gallium Nitride MIS-HEMTs Fabrication

  • Yannan Yang,
  • Rong Fan,
  • Penghao Zhang,
  • Luyu Wang,
  • Maolin Pan,
  • Qiang Wang,
  • Xinling Xie,
  • Saisheng Xu,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Chunlei Wu,
  • Min Xu,
  • Jian Jin,
  • David Wei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14071278
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 7
p. 1278

Abstract

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In this work, we demonstrated a low current collapse normally on Al2O3/AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT with in situ H-radical surface treatment on AlGaN. The in situ atomic pretreatment was performed in a specially designed chamber prior to the thermal ALD-Al2O3 deposition, which improved the Al2O3/AlGaN interface with Dit of ~2 × 1012 cm−2 eV−1, and thus effectively reduced the current collapse and the dynamic Ron degradation. The devices showed good electrical performance with low Vth hysteresis and peak trans-conductance of 107 mS/mm. Additionally, when the devices operated under 25 °C pulse-mode stress measurement with VDS,Q = 40 V (period of 1 ms, pulse width of 1 μs), the dynamic Ron increase of ~14.1% was achieved.

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