摘要:
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a stoichiometric gallium oxide (Ga.sub.2 O.sub.3) thin film with dielectric properties on at least a portion of a semiconducting, insulating or metallic substrate. The method comprises electron-beam evaporation of single crystal, high purity Gd.sub.3 Ga.sub.5 O.sub.12 complex compound combining relatively ionic oxide, such as Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3, with the more covalent oxide Ga.sub.2 O.sub.3 such as to deposit a uniform, homogeneous, dense Ga.sub.2 O.sub.3 thin film with dielectric properties on a variety of said substrates, the semiconducting substrates including III-V and II-VI compound semiconductors.
摘要翻译:公开了一种在半导体,绝缘或金属基底的至少一部分上制造具有介电特性的化学计量的氧化镓(Ga 2 O 3)薄膜的方法。 该方法包括电子束蒸发单晶,高纯Gd3Ga5O12复合化合物,将相对离子氧化物(如Gd2O3)与较多共价氧化物Ga2O3结合,以沉积均匀,均匀致密的Ga2O3薄膜,具有介电性能 的所述衬底,所述半导体衬底包括III-V和II-VI化合物半导体。
摘要:
Methods and apparatus are described for semiconductor devices. A method comprises providing a partially completed semiconductor device including a substrate, a semiconductor on the substrate, and a passivation layer on the semiconductor, and using a first mask, locally etching the passivation layer to expose a portion of the semiconductor, and without removing the first mask, forming a Schottky contact of a first material on the exposed portion of the semiconductor, then removing the first mask, and using a further mask, forming a step-gate conductor of a second material electrically coupled to the Schottky contact and overlying parts of the passivation layer adjacent to the Schottky contact. By minimizing the process steps between opening the Schottky contact window in the passivation layer and forming the Schottky contact material in this window, the gate leakage of a resulting field effect device having a Schottky gate may be substantially reduced.
摘要:
A method of forming a portion (10) of a compound semiconductor MOSFET structure comprises forming a compound semiconductor layer structure (14) and an oxide layer (20) overlying the same. Forming the compound semiconductor structure (14) includes forming at least one channel material (16) and a group-III rich surface termination layer (18) overlying the at least one channel material. Forming the oxide layer (20) includes forming the oxide layer to overlie the group-III rich surface termination layer and comprises one of (a) depositing essentially congruently evaporating oxide of at least one of (a(i)) a ternary oxide and (a(ii)) an oxide more complex than a ternary oxide and (b) depositing oxide molecules, with use of at least one of (b(i)) a ternary oxide and (b(ii)) an oxide more complex than a ternary oxide.
摘要:
An improved insulated gate field effect device (60) is obtained by providing a substrate (20) desirably comprising a III-V semiconductor, having a further semiconductor layer (22) on the substrate (20) adapted to contain the channel (230) of the device (60) between spaced apart source-drain electrodes (421, 422) formed on the semiconductor layer (22). A dielectric layer (24) is formed on the semiconductor layer (22). A sealing layer (28) is formed on the dielectric layer (24) and exposed to an oxygen plasma (36). A gate electrode (482) is formed on the dielectric layer (24) between the source-drain electrodes (421, 422). The dielectric layer (24) preferably comprises gallium-oxide (25) and/or gadolinium-gallium oxide (26, 27), and the oxygen plasma (36) is preferably an inductively coupled plasma. A further sealing layer (44) of, for example, silicon nitride is desirably provided above the sealing layer (28). Surface states and gate dielectric traps that otherwise adversely affect leakage and channel sheet resistance are much reduced.
摘要:
A method of forming a III-V compound semiconductor structure (10) comprises providing a III-V compound semiconductor substrate including a semi-insulating substrate (12) having at least one epitaxial layer formed thereon and further having a gate insulator (14) overlying the at least one epitaxial layer. The at least one epitaxial layer formed on the semi-insulating substrate comprises an epi-structure suitable for use in the formation of a channel of a III-V compound semiconductor MOSFET device, wherein the channel (30) having a first polarity. The method further comprises forming a charge layer (22) at a surface of the gate insulator, the charge layer having a second polarity, wherein the second polarity is opposite to the first polarity.
摘要:
A compound semiconductor structure is provided, which includes a GaAs-based supporting semiconductor structure having a surface on which a dielectric material is to be formed. A first layer of gallium oxide is located on the surface of the supporting semiconductor structure to form an interface therewith. A second layer of a Ga—Gd oxide is disposed on the first layer. The GaAs-based supporting semiconductor structure may be a GaAs-based heterostructure such as an at least partially completed semiconductor device (e.g., a metal-oxide field effect transistor, a heterojunction bipolar transistor, or a semiconductor laser). In this manner a dielectric layer structure is provided which has both a low defect density at the oxide-GaAs interface and a low oxide leakage current density because the dielectric structure is formed from a layer of Ga2O3 followed by a layer of Ga—Gd-oxide. The Ga2O3 layer is used to form a high quality interface with the GaAs-based supporting semiconductor structure while the Ga—Gd-oxide provides a low oxide leakage current density.
摘要翻译:提供了一种化合物半导体结构,其包括具有其上将要形成介电材料的表面的GaAs基支撑半导体结构。 第一层氧化镓位于支撑半导体结构的表面上以与其形成界面。 在第一层上设置第二层Ga-Gd氧化物。 GaAs基支撑半导体结构可以是诸如至少部分完成的半导体器件(例如,金属氧化物场效应晶体管,异质结双极晶体管或半导体激光器)的基于GaAs的异质结构。 以这种方式,提供了在氧化物 - GaAs界面处具有低缺陷密度和低氧化物漏电流密度的电介质层结构,因为电介质结构由Ga 2 O 2层形成, 然后是一层Ga-Gd氧化物。 Ga 2 O 3层用于与GaAs基支持半导体结构形成高质量的界面,而Ga-Gd氧化物提供低的氧化物漏电流密度 。
摘要:
A method of forming a metal-insulator-compound semiconductor structure comprises providing an insulator layer overlying a compound semiconductor substrate, the insulator layer having a surface, and forming a metal layer on the surface of the insulator layer using metal organic chemical vapor deposition.
摘要:
A method of forming an electrically insulating layer (130) on a compound semiconductor (110) comprises: providing a compound semiconductor structure; preparing an upper surface (111) of the compound semiconductor structure to be chemically clean; forming a template (120) on the compound semiconductor structure using a first precursor in a metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system or a chemical beam epitaxy (CBE) system; and introducing oxygen and a second precursor to the MOCVD system in order to form the electrically insulating layer.
摘要:
A III-V based, implant free MOS heterostructure field-effect transistor device comprises a gate insulator layer overlying a compound semiconductor substrate; ohmic contacts coupled to the compound semiconductor substrate proximate opposite sides of an active device region defined within the compound semiconductor substrate; and a gate metal contact electrode formed on the gate insulator layer in a region between the ohmic contacts. The ohmic contacts have portions thereof that overlap with portions of the gate insulator layer within the active device region. The overlapping portions ensure avoidance of an undesirable gap formation between an edge of the ohmic contact and a corresponding edge of the gate insulator layer.
摘要:
An implant-free enhancement mode metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (EMOSFET) is provided. The EMOSFET has a III-V compound semiconductor substrate and an epitaxial layer structure overlying the III-V compound semiconductor substrate. The epitaxial material layer has a channel layer and at least one doped layer. A gate oxide layer overlies the epitaxial layer structure. The EMOSFET further includes a metal gate electrode overlying the gate oxide layer and source and drain ohmic contacts overlying the epitaxial layer structure.