MBE growth of high quality metamorphic HEMT structures on GaAs
- 7 November 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Metamorphic high electron mobility transistor (MHEMT) structures with In/sub 0.53/Ga/sub 0.47/As channels were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs substrates using As-, P-, and Sb-based buffer layers. Structural, electrical, and optical characterizations were used to correlate buffer layer design and growth parameters with channel carrier mobility, surface morphology, and photoluminescence efficiency. X-ray reciprocal maps indicate complete lattice relaxation of buffer layer. All MHEMTs studied in this work exhibited excellent transport properties comparable to HEMTs grown lattice-matched on InP. RMS roughness of <14 /spl Aring/ were achieved for both InAlGaAs and AlGaAsSb-based buffers. MHEMT devices with 0.15 /spl mu/m gates were fabricated successfully on As-based M-buffers with transconductance of /spl sim/700 mS/mm, saturated drain current at zero gate bias of 200 mA/mm, and gate-drain breakdown voltage of 6.6 V.Keywords
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