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- Title
PtO<sub>x</sub> Schottky Contacts on Degenerately Doped 2¯01β-Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Substrates.
- Authors
Spencer, Joseph A.; Jacobs, Alan G.; Hobart, Karl D.; Koehler, Andrew D.; Anderson, Travis J.; Zhang, Yuhao; Tadjer, Marko J.
- Abstract
Platinum oxide (PtOx) Schottky contacts on degenerately doped β-Ga2O3 substrates show an increased barrier height of 85% and 64% when compared to nickel and platinum Schottky contacts, respectively. At low reverse voltage bias, the reverse leakage current of the PtOx Schottky barrier diodes was approximately 5–6 orders of magnitude lower than the reference evaporated Ni and Pt Schottky contacts. PtOx Schottky contacts were deposited using reactive sputtering on highly doped (8 × 1018 cm−3) ( 2 ¯ 01 ) β-Ga2O3:Sn substrates grown by the edge-defined film-fed growth (EFG) method. All Schottky metals were capped with evaporated Au. Capacitance–voltage and temperature-dependent current–voltage measurements were performed in order to extract the barrier height of the PtOx Schottky contact. Analysis of the diode ideality factors reveal that the PtOx Schottky contacts on highly doped β-Ga2O3 do not follow the thermionic field emission model and are impacted by inhomogeneous barrier height distribution. This work highlights the significance of PtOx Schottky contacts for β-Ga2O3-based power devices as a means for reducing leakage current. This work also holds relevance for low-voltage applications, where Schottky contacts for degenerately doped semiconductors can enable new electronic device applications.
- Subjects
SUBSTRATES (Materials science); SCHOTTKY barrier diodes; DOPED semiconductors; STRAY currents; REACTIVE sputtering; FIELD emission; CAPACITANCE measurement
- Publication
Journal of Electronic Materials, 2024, Vol 53, Issue 6, p2798
- ISSN
0361-5235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11664-024-10966-5