TY - JOUR
AU - Yang, Shu
AU - Huang, Sen
AU - Schnee, Michael
AU - Zhao, Qing-Tai
AU - Schubert, Jürgen
AU - Chen, Kevin J.
TI - Fabrication and Characterization of Enhancement-Mode High-kappa LaLuO3-AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMTs
JO - IEEE transactions on electron devices
VL - 60
IS - 10
SN - 1557-9646
CY - New York, NY
PB - IEEE
M1 - FZJ-2013-04442
SP - 3040 - 3046
PY - 2013
AB - In this paper, we investigate the enhancement-mode (E-mode) ${rm LaLuO}_{3}$ (LLO)-AlGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron mobility transistors (MIS-HEMTs) fabricated using fluorine (F) plasma ion implantation with a gate-dielectric-first planar process. The E-mode MIS-HEMTs exhibit a threshold voltage $(V_{rm TH})$ of 0.6 V, a peak transconductance of ${sim}{rm 193}~{rm mS}/{rm mm}$, a small hysteresis of 0.04 V in linear region characterized by a pulse-mode current-voltage measurement, and significantly suppressed current collapse under high-drain-bias switching conditions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry analyses manifest that the negatively charged F ions penetrating into the (Al)GaN barrier layer serve as the primary $V_{rm TH}$ modulation mechanism, whereas the F ions in the fluorinated LLO film form chemical bonds with La/Lu atoms and become charge-neutral. The suppressed current collapse is verified as an advantageous byproduct of the F plasma ion implantation that also fluorinated the SiNx sidewalls in the vicinity of the gate electrode, and therefore, suppress electron injection to the gate-drain access region.
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DO - DOI:10.1109/TED.2013.2277559
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/138285
ER -