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IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 1064-1067Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2019.2919251
Keywords
Gallium oxide; normally-off; metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
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- Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI)
- Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion (SIP) Program Next-Generation Power Electronics through NEDO
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We found that nitrogen (N) and silicon (Si) were unintentionally co-doped in Ga2O3 layers grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE), and that the ratio between N and Si could be controlled by O/Ga flux ratio during the growth. Note that N and Si act as a deep acceptor (theoretically predicted) and a shallow donor (experimentally confirmed) in Ga2O3, respectively. Taking advantage of this unique characteristic of PAMBE-grown Ga2O3, normally off operation of Ga2O3 metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) was demonstrated. The unintentionally-doped-Ga2O3 channel layer of the MOSFETs had N and Si concentrations of 1 x 10(18) and 2 x 10(17) cm(-3), respectively, and thus it was considered to behave as a p-type material. The MOSFETs showed a turn-on threshold gate voltage of larger than + 8 V, implying formation of an inversion channel in the N-doped Ga2O3 layer. Although the ON-state drain current (I-d) remained in the subthreshold regime owing to limited gate voltage swing, the I-d ON/OFF ratio exceeded five orders of magnitude.
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