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An Investigation of the Al/n-GaAs Diodes with High Schottky Barrier Heights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

C-P. Chen ,
Y. A. Chang  and
T.F. Kuech
C-P. Chen
Affiliation:
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Materials Science and Engineering Department, 1509 University Ave., Madison, WI. 53706
Y. A. Chang
Affiliation:
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Materials Science and Engineering Department, 1509 University Ave., Madison, WI. 53706
T.F. Kuech
Affiliation:
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemical Engineering Department, 1415 Johnson Dr., Madison, WI. 53706
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Abstract

Thermally stable Al/n-GaAs Schottky contacts, up to annealing temperature at 500 °C for 20 seconds, have been realized by sputter deposition from an Al target to (100) n-GaAs at a base pressure ∼2×10−7 Torr. The Schottky barrier height was 0.75 eV (0.9 eV) when using the I-V (C-V) method with an ideality factor of 1.09 for the as-deposited samples. The Schottky barrier height increased to 0.97 eV (1.06 eV) with an ideality factor of 1.07 after annealing at 400 °C for 20 seconds. This barrier height, 0.97 eV, is the highest value reported for Al/n-GaAs diodes. The interfacial stability between Al and GaAs has been examined by cross section transmission electron microscopy. A (200) dark field cross section transmission electron microscopy image of the contact after annealing at 600 °C showed that the (Ga,Al)As phase formed at the interface and the enhancement of the Schottky barrier height was due to the formation of this phase.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 318: Symposium Ca – Interface Control of Electrical, Chemical, and Mechanical Properties , 1993 , 147
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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