Journal
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
Volume 507, Issue -, Pages 139-142Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.10.039
Keywords
Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy; Nitrides; Semiconducting III-V materials; High electron mobility transistors
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We have shown that in an AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead MOVPE system, InAlN layers are strongly contaminated with gallium, giving increasing contamination when thicker GaN layers are grown below the InAlN. We have also shown that as the gallium contamination increases, there is reduced indium in the layers and thicker layers. To explain these phenomena we propose a quantitative model for these observations, suggesting that the TMIn precursor reacts with gallium on the showerhead surface to release TMGa or MMGa, which is then incorporated into the layers. We grew InAlN layers around 14 nm thick with a 1 nm AlN spacer to form High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) structures. For the InAlN barrier layers grown directly on a GaN template, the 2D electron gas (2DEG) was degraded by the regrowth interface, but this 2DEG degradation was reduced by the growth of thin GaN layers. However, for thicker layers of GaN, there was a strong gallium contamination and so a change in alloy composition, which increased the sheet resistance. Thus we need an optimum regrowth thickness to have the best sheet resistance values.
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