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Enhanced gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor and preparation method thereof

A high electron mobility, gallium nitride technology, applied in the field of enhanced gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors and its preparation, can solve the problems of difficult process control, low batch repeatability, unstable device performance, etc. problem, to achieve high device transconductance performance and microwave gain performance, easy control of the process, and high device reliability

Active Publication Date: 2020-09-15
XIDIAN UNIV
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[0005] However, the cost of the etching process or epitaxial growth process used in the realization of these existing enhancement-mode gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor structures is too high, and the process is not easy to control, resulting in poor performance of the formed device. Stable; in addition, existing enhancement-mode GaN HEM transistor structures have poor large-size wafer uniformity and low batch-to-batch repeatability

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[0045] See figure 1 , figure 1 It is a schematic structural diagram of an enhancement-mode gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor provided by an embodiment of the present invention, including:

[0046] A wafer 1, a source electrode 2 and a drain electrode 3 arranged on the wafer 1, a gate electrode 4 arranged on the wafer 1 and between the source electrode 2 and the drain electrode 3; wherein,

[0047] Wafer 1 includes GaN epitaxial structures;

[0048] An amorphous material region 5 is disposed in the wafer 1 , and the amorphous material region 5 is located under the gate electrode 4 .

[0049] Further, the width of the amorphous material region 5 is the same as the gate foot width of the gate electrode 4 .

[0050] In this embodiment, the amorphous material region 5 is formed by performing ion implantation on the wafer 1, wherein the implanted ions are nitrogen ions, argon ions, krypton ions or xenon ions, or other ions.

[0051] Specifically, in this embodime...

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[0080] On the basis of the first embodiment above, this embodiment provides a method for manufacturing an enhancement-mode gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor. See image 3 , image 3 It is a flowchart of a method for manufacturing an enhancement-mode gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor provided in an embodiment of the present invention, including the following steps:

[0081] S1: Fabricate a wafer including a gallium nitride epitaxial structure, specifically including:

[0082] S11: Select high-resistance silicon with a crystal orientation of 111 as the substrate.

[0083] S12: sequentially preparing a Group-III nitride composite buffer zone, channel layer, and composite barrier region on the high-resistance silicon substrate.

[0084] Specifically, MOCVD (Metal-organic Chemical Vapor Deposition) equipment and technology are first used to epitaxially grow a nucleation region, a transition region and a core buffer zone on a high-resistance silico...

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[0106]On the basis of the above-mentioned embodiment 2, this implementation provides a detailed preparation method to prepare and form the enhanced gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor described in the above-mentioned embodiment 1, which specifically includes the following steps:

[0107] Step 1: Using MOCVD equipment and technology to epitaxially grow III-GaN material on the high-resistance silicon substrate 11, and fabricate a wafer 1 with GaN high electron mobility transistor epitaxial structure. See Figure 4a~4h , Figure 4a~4h It is a schematic diagram of a fabrication method of a wafer with a gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor epitaxial structure provided by an embodiment of the present invention, specifically as follows:

[0108] 1a) Select high-resistance silicon with a crystal orientation of (111) as the substrate 11, such as Figure 4a shown;

[0109] 1b) Using MOCVD equipment and technology, epitaxially grow a nucleation layer 21 with...

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Abstract

The invention discloses an enhanced gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor and a preparation method thereof. The enhanced gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor comprises a wafer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode, wherein the source electrode and the drain electrode are arranged on the wafer, and the gate electrode is arranged on the wafer and is located between the source electrode and the drain electrode; the wafer comprises a gallium nitride epitaxial structure; the wafer is internally provided with an amorphous material area, and the amorphous material area is located below the gate electrode. According to the enhanced gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor provided by the invention, the lattice structure is damaged by carrying out ion implantation on part of a barrier layer below the gate electrode to form an amorphous material, so that the two-dimensional electron gas under the gate electrode is depleted to realize the design of enhanced transistor. According to the invention, the structure is simple, the technological process is easy to control, the cost is relatively low, and the reliability of the device is high.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductors, and in particular relates to an enhanced gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor and a preparation method thereof. Background technique [0002] With the development of microelectronics technology, the third-generation wide-bandgap semiconductor materials represented by gallium nitride have the advantages of larger bandgap width, higher critical breakdown electric field and higher electron saturation drift velocity. It has become an ideal material for applications in the field of microwave / millimeter wave systems. At the same time, since the critical electric field strength of gallium nitride material is 11 times that of silicon material, the mobility of two-dimensional electron gas of gallium nitride heterojunction structure is also about twice higher than that of silicon material, while gallium nitride material The figure of merit of Baliga is about 1400 times higher than that...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H01L21/335H01L29/778H01L29/20H01L29/06
CPCH01L29/66462H01L29/778H01L29/2003H01L29/0603
Inventor 刘志宏蔡鸣张进成周弘赵胜雷王泽宇郝璐张苇杭张雅超郝跃
Owner XIDIAN UNIV