Influence of surface processing and passivation on carrier concentrations and transport properties in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 90 (3) , 1357-1361
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1383014
Abstract
The influence of surface chemical treatments and of deposition of a SiO2 surface passivation layer on carrier distributions and mobility in AlxGa1−xN/GaN heterostructure field-effect-transistor epitaxial layer structures is investigated. Surface chemical treatments are found to exert little influence on carrier distribution and mobility. Deposition of a SiO2 surface passivation layer is found to induce an increase in electron concentration in the transistor channel and a decrease in mobility. These changes are largely reversed upon removal of the SiO2 layer by wet etching. These observations are quantitatively consistent with a shift in Fermi level at the AlxGa1−xN surface of approximately 1 eV upon deposition of SiO2, indicating that the AlxGa1−xN/SiO2 interface has a different, and possibly much lower, density of electronic states compared to the AlxGa1−xN free surface.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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