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The Effect of Rapid Thermal Annealing on the Electrical and Material Characteristics of Planar Doped and Uniformly Doped GaAs/AiGaAs/InGaAs Pseudomorphic HEMT Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

T. E. Kazior  and
S. K. Brierley
T. E. Kazior
Affiliation:
Raytheon Company, Research Division, 131 Spring St., Lexington, MA 02173
S. K. Brierley
Affiliation:
Raytheon Company, Research Division, 131 Spring St., Lexington, MA 02173
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Abstract

MBE grown GaAs/Al0.25Ga0.75As/In0.85Ga0.85 As structures were subjected to SiNx capped rapid thermal annealing and their electrical and material properties were characterized by Hall measurements and photoluminescence (PL). Low temperature (5°K) PL spectra from undoped structures annealed up to 900°C indicated negligible intermixing at the AIGaAs/lnGaAs interface. For planar doped structures (Nd≈5×1012/cm2) the Hall mobility began to decrease at anneal temperatures as low as 800°C with significant degradation observed for annealing temperatures at 850°C. This data is supported by PL spectra which indicate no significant change for samples annealed at 800°C. For the samples annealed at ≥ 850°C a large increase in the full width at half maximum of the transitions from the electron sub-bands of the InGaAs quantum well were observed, suggesting that the change in electrical characteristics is primarily due to diffusion of the Si doping pulse. In contrast. Hall measurement of uniformly doped structures reveal only small decreases in mobility and no significant change in sheet concentration for anneal temperatures up to 900°C and doping levels up to 2.5×1018/cm3. PL spectra reveal no structural changes.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 240: Symposium E – Advanced III-V Compound Semiconductor Growth, Processing and Devices , 1991 , 557
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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