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Cite as: Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 023502 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993569
Submitted: 24 April 2017 . Accepted: 25 June 2017 . Published Online: 12 July 2017
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Zhanbo Xia, Chandan Joishi, Yuewei Zhang, Joe McGlone, Jared Johnson, Mark
Brenner, Aaron R. Arehart, Jinwoo Hwang, Saurabh Lodha, and Siddharth Rajan
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Paper published as part of the special topic on The Dawn of Gallium Oxide Microelectronics
© 2017 Author(s).
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 111, 023502 (2017)
Beta-Gallium Oxide1,2 (GO) is a promising ultra-wide solution combustion synthesis28 and pulsed laser deposition.29
band gap material with a band gap of 4.6 eV. Its large band Evidence of modulation doping at the AGO/GO heterojunc-
gap and availability of bulk substrates grown using melt- tion using unintentional doping of the AGO layer has also
based growth techniques3–12 make it attractive for high been reported.30 In this work, we report on the electrical char-
power,13 high frequency, and optoelectronic14,15 applica- acteristics of a delta modulation-doped epitaxial AGO/GO
tions. Field effect transistors16–21 and diodes with a break- heterostructure and demonstrate an AGO/GO modulation-
down of up to 1 kV (Ref. 22) have been demonstrated by doped field effect transistor (MODFET).
several groups using both beta and other polymorphs of GO. An AGO/GO modulation-doped heterostructure [epitax-
Most transistor results in this material system16–21 have been ial stack shown in Fig. 1(a)] was grown on Fe-doped (010)
based on field-effect transistors with relatively thick chan- b-Ga2O3 semi-insulating substrates.31 The epitaxial structure
nels, using Schottky or metal-oxide gate structures for charge consisted of a 125 nm unintentionally-doped (UID) GO
modulation. However, as in conventional III-V semiconduc- buffer layer and a 21 nm AGO barrier layer with delta doping
tors, two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) channels provide in the AGO barrier. The AGO spacer layer with a thickness
several advantages for scaling of devices and for higher of 3 nm was used to maximize the modulation doping effi-
mobility.23 In particular, in the case of GO, where the room- ciency. Before initiating the growth, the substrate was heated
temperature bulk mobility is relatively low, the screening of up to 800 C to remove adsorbed impurities on the substrate
phonon scattering in high density 2D electron gases has been to avoid any parasitic channel in the buffer layer. The sample
predicted to lead to significantly higher mobility.24 This high was grown32 by oxygen plasma-assisted molecular beam epi-
mobility combined with the vertical scaling enabled by taxy using a Ga flux of 8 108 Torr, an oxygen plasma
2DEGs would be very beneficial for a range of high perfor-
mance device applications that exploit the large band gap of
GO. Recently, such a scaled thin channel approach using
delta impurity doping was used to realize a delta-doped
FET25 with high transconductance and current density. A
modulation-doped structure would enable higher mobility
than a delta-doped layer by reducing the effect of impurity
scattering.
Al2O3 is stable in the corundum polytype, while Ga2O3
has multiple polytypes, with the monoclinic crystal structure
(b-Ga2O3) being the most stable. Alloying of Al with b-
Ga2O3 to realize b-(AlxGa1x)2O3 (AGO) has been investi-
gated,26 and the Al2O3 mole fraction as high as 61% was
reported while maintaining the phase purity for molecular
beam epitaxy-grown films.27 An Al2O3 mole fraction of up
to 80% has been reported for AGO powders prepared by
FIG. 1. (a) Epitaxial structure, (b) high resolution X-ray diffraction charac-
a)
S. Krishnamoorthy and Z. Xia contributed equally to this work. terization, (c) atomic force microscopy image of a typical sample surface,
b)
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: krishnamoorthy. and (d) cross-sectional STEM image of AGO/GO MODFET grown on an
13@osu.edu; xia.104@osu.edu; and rajan.21@osu.edu insulating Fe-doped GO substrate.
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