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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 87, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2146060
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Al2O3 was deposited on In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs using atomic-layer deposition (ALD). Without any surface preparation or postthermal treatment, excellent electrical properties of Al2O3/InGaAs/GaAs heterostructures were obtained, in terms of low electrical leakage current density (10(-8) to 10(-9) A/cm(2)) and low interfacial density of states (D-it) in the range of 10(12) cm(-2) eV(-1). The interfacial reaction and structural properties studied by high-resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HRXPS) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The depth profile of HRXPS, using synchrotron radiation beam and low-energy Ar+ sputtering, exhibited no residual arsenic oxides at interface. The removal of the arsenic oxides from Al2O3/InGaAs heterostructures during the ALD process ensures the Fermi-level unpinning, which was observed in the capacitance-voltage measurements. The HRTEM shows sharp transition from amorphous oxide to single crystalline semiconductor. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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