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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 110, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3669407
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- ST Microelectronics RD in Catania
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- ENIAC [120218]
- national programs/funding authorities of Greece
- national programs/funding authorities of Italy
- national programs/funding authorities of Poland
- national programs/funding authorities of Sweden
This paper reports on the evolution of the structural and electrical proprieties of Au/Ni contacts to p-type gallium nitride (GaN) upon thermal treatments. Annealing of the metals in an oxidizing atmosphere (N-2/O-2) led to better electrical characteristics, in terms of specific contact resistance (rho(c)), with respect to non-reacting ambient (Ar). The evolution of the metal structures and the formation of a NiO layer both at the sample surface and at the interface with p-GaN were monitored by several techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Furthermore, a reduction of the Schottky barrier height from 1.07 eV (Ar annealing) to 0.71 eV (N-2/O-2 annealing) was determined by the temperature dependence of the rho(c). Local current maps by conductive AFM demonstrate the role of the interface in the conduction mechanism. These electrical results were correlated with the interfacial microstructure of the annealed contacts considering different transport models. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3669407]
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