A systematic study on the efficacy of low-temperature GaN regrown on p-GaN to suppress Mg out-diffusion
Frontiers in Materials(2023)
Abstract
Embedding p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) in AlxGa1-xN-based thin films has garnered significant interest as a versatile structure for bandgap engineering such as tunnel/super-junctions or current blocking/guiding functions in electronic devices. However, Mg, a p-GaN dopant, has an undesirable diffusive capacity into the nearby thin films at a high growth temperature (>1,000 degrees C), resulting in structural challenges in device design. This study systematically investigated the low-temperature GaN (LT-GaN) layer regrown on p-GaN that suppresses Mg diffusion according to metal-organic chemical vapor deposition growth conditions. Prototype Al0.3Ga0.7N (40 nm)/GaN (140 nm) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) were regrown with LT-GaN on p-GaN (300 nm), and a high two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) density of 3.13E12 cm(-2) was achieved by inserting a 100-nm-thick LT-GaN layer grown at 750 degrees C; in contrast, only 1.76E10 cm(-2) 2DEG density was obtained from Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN HEMTs regrown directly on p-GaN (Mg: 4.0E19 cm(-3)). The fabricated Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN HEMTs with 100-nm-thick LT-GaN demonstrated a high drain current density of 84.5 mA/mm with a low on-state resistance of 31 Omegamm. The AlxGa1-xN/LT-GaN/p-GaN platform demonstrated here paves the way for various III-nitride-based structures with embedded p-GaN.
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Key words
pulsed low-temperature growth,Mg diffusion,MOCVD thin-film growth,AlGaN/GaN HEMT,power electronics
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