Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of GaN on Si(111): Stress control and application to field-effect transistors
- 15 June 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 89 (12) , 7846-7851
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1372160
Abstract
Two schemes of nucleation and growth of gallium nitride on Si(111) substrates are investigated and the structural and electrical properties of the resulting films are reported. Gallium nitride films grown using a 10–500 nm-thick AlN buffer layer deposited at high temperature (∼1050 °C) are found to be under 260–530 MPa of tensile stress and exhibit cracking, the origin of which is discussed. The threading dislocation density in these films increases with increasing AlN thickness, covering a range of 1.1 to >5.8×109 cm−2. Films grown using a thick, AlN-to-GaN graded buffer layer are found to be under compressive stress and are completely crack free. Heterojunction field effect transistors fabricated on such films result in well-defined saturation and pinch-off behavior with a saturated current of ∼525 mA/mm and a transconductance of ∼100 mS/mm in dc operation.This publication has 44 references indexed in Scilit:
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