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Digital Oxide Deposition Of Sio2 Layers For Iii-Nitride Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors, V. Adivarahan, S. Rai, N. Tipirneni, A. Koudymov, J. Yang, Grigory Simin, M. Asif Khan May 2006

Digital Oxide Deposition Of Sio2 Layers For Iii-Nitride Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors, V. Adivarahan, S. Rai, N. Tipirneni, A. Koudymov, J. Yang, Grigory Simin, M. Asif Khan

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We present a digital-oxide-deposition (DOD) technique to deposit high quality SiO2dielectric layers by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition using alternate pulses of silicon and oxygen precursors. The DOD procedure allows for a precise thickness control and results in extremely smooth insulating SiO2 layers. An insulating gate AlGaN∕GaNheterostructurefield-effect transistor(HFET) with 8nm thick DOD SiO2dielectric layer had a threshold voltage of −6V (only 1V higher than that of regular HFET), very low threshold voltage dispersion, and output continuous wave rf power of 15W∕mm at 55V drain bias.


Real-Space Electron Transfer In Iii-Nitride Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Heterojunction Structures, S. Saygi, A. Koudymov, V. Adivarahan, J. Yang, Grigory Simin, M. Asif Khan, J. Deng, R. Gaska, M. S. Shur Jul 2005

Real-Space Electron Transfer In Iii-Nitride Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Heterojunction Structures, S. Saygi, A. Koudymov, V. Adivarahan, J. Yang, Grigory Simin, M. Asif Khan, J. Deng, R. Gaska, M. S. Shur

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The real-space transfer effect in a SiO2∕AlGaN∕GaN metal-oxide-semiconductor heterostructure (MOSH) from the two-dimensional (2D) electron gas at the heterointerface to the oxide-semiconductor interface has been demonstrated and explained. The effect occurs at high positive gate bias and manifests itself as an additional step in the capacitance-voltage (C‐V) characteristic. The real-space transfer effect limits the achievable maximum 2D electron gas density in the device channel. We show that in MOSH structures the maximum electron gas density exceeds up to two times that at the equilibrium (zero bias) condition. Correspondingly, a significant increase in the maximum channel current (up to …