학술논문

Low-resistance Ohmic contacts to digital alloys of n-AlGaN/AlN
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Electron Device Letters IEEE Electron Device Lett. Electron Device Letters, IEEE. 27(1):22-24 Jan, 2006
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Ohmic contacts
Digital alloys
Contact resistance
Aluminum gallium nitride
Electrons
Diffraction
Surface resistance
Hafnium
Metallization
Gold
AlGaN
GaN
light-emitting diode
ohmic contact
superlattices
Language
ISSN
0741-3106
1558-0563
Abstract
Low contact resistance to digital alloys of n-type AlGaN/AlN with high average Al concentration is described. Low-energy electron diffraction was used to evaluate surface precleaning with HCl and buffered HF. The contact metallization consisting of a stack of Ti/Al/Ti/Au, 20/100/45/60 nm in thickness, was e-beam deposited and etch-patterned. The lowest specific contact resistance of 5.6/spl times/10/sup -5/ /spl Omega//spl middot/cm/sup 2/ was obtained after annealing in N/sub 2/ ambient at 700/spl deg/C.