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Huake Su, Tao Zhang, Shengrui Xu, Hongchang Tao, Yibo Wang, Yuan Gao, Yue Hao, Jincheng Zhang. Investigation of performance-enhanced GaN-based E-mode p-channel MOSFET with pre-ohmic-annealing treatment[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2024, 45(11): 112501. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/24050015
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H K Su, T Zhang, S R Xu, H C Tao, Y B Wang, Y Gao, Y Hao, and J C Zhang, Investigation of performance-enhanced GaN-based E-mode p-channel MOSFET with pre-ohmic-annealing treatment[J]. J. Semicond., 2024, 45(11), 112501 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/24050015
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Investigation of performance-enhanced GaN-based E-mode p-channel MOSFET with pre-ohmic-annealing treatment
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/24050015
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Abstract
Pre-ohmic-annealing (POA) treatment of P-GaN/AlN/AlGaN epitaxy under N2 atmosphere was demonstrated to effectively achieve good p-type ohmic contact as well as decreased epitaxy sheet resistance. Ohmic contact resistance (Rc) extracted by transfer length method reduced from 38 to 23 Ω·mm with alleviated contact barrier height from 0.55 to 0.51 eV after POA treatment. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Hall measurement confirmed that POA treatment was able to reduce surface state density and improve the hole concentration of p-GaN. Due to the decreased Rc and improved two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) density, an outstanding-performance GaN E-mode p-channel MOSFET was successfully realized.-
Keywords:
- POA treatment,
- GaN,
- p-channel,
- E-Mode,
- barrier height,
- surface states
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