Fabrication of AlGaAs/GaAs/diamond heterojunctions for diamond-collector HBTs
Abstract
Diamond is a highly attractive ultrawide bandgap semiconductor for next-generation high-power switching devices and RF devices for its superior physical and electrical properties. However, the lack of effective n-type dopants in diamond has limited the material to only unipolar p-type device applications. Heterostructure bipolar devices that use better n-type semiconductors together with p-type diamond is an approach to get high performance devices. In this work, p–n–p AlGaAs/GaAs/diamond heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are proposed and fabricated using a grafting technique. The double-heterojunction is formed by transferring an AlGaAs(p-type)/GaAs(n-type) membrane onto single-crystalline p-type doped diamond with an electron affinity of 0.32 eV. The epitaxial AlGaAs/GaAs emitter-base p–n junction shows an ideality factor of 1.09 with an Ion/Ioff of 1.53 × 107 at ± 1.5 V. The grafted GaAs/diamond n–p junction shows an ideality factor of 3.67 with an Ion/Ioff of 3.74 × 1010 at ± 5.2 V. Due to the valence-band energy barrier of 0.3 eV between the GaAs base and the diamond collector, the measured current gain for the HBT is slightly below unity. Simulations show that by reducing the electron affinity value of the p-type diamond, the base-collector energy barrier height can be correspondingly reduced, and high current gain can be expected.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1063/5.0027864
Entities
People
- Aaron Hardy
- Cristian J. Herrera-rodriguez
- Dong Liu
- Doo Gun Kim
- Edward Swinnich
- Geum-yoon Oh
- Jae Cheol Shin
- Jiarui Gong
- Jisoo Kim
- John D. Albrecht
- John Papapolymerou
- Jung-Hun Seo
- Michael Becker
- Sang June Cho
- T.A. Grotjohn
- Xenofon Konstantinou
- Zhenqiang Ma
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Korea Photonics Technology Institute
- Michigan State University
- National Research Foundation
- University at Buffalo
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Yeungnam University