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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 78, Issue 20, Pages 3088-3090Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1372620
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The effect of the growth conditions of the top 2.5 nm thick AlGaN cap layer and wafer cool down conditions on AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor performance was investigated. The AlGaN/GaN heterostructures were deposited on sapphire by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and consisted of a 3 mum thick semi-insulating GaN layer and an 18 nm thick Al0.33Ga0.67N layer, the top 2.5 nm of which was deposited under various conditions. The power performance of the devices severely degraded for all samples where the Al content of the top 2.5 nm of AlGaN was increased and/or the ammonia flow during growth of the top layer was decreased. A modest improvement in the output power density was observed when the growth conditions of the cap layer were identical of those of the rest of the AlGaN layer, but when the wafer was cooled down in pure nitrogen. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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