Author:
Gonçalez Filho Walter,Borga Matteo,Geens Karen,Cingu Deepthi,Chatterjee Urmimala,Banerjee Sourish,Vohra Anurag,Han Han,Minj Albert,Hahn Herwig,Marx Matthias,Fahle Dirk,Bakeroot Benoit,Decoutere Stefaan
Abstract
AbstractThis work reports the epitaxial growth of 8.5 µm-thick GaN layers on 200 mm engineered substrates with a polycrystalline AlN core (QST by QROMIS) for CMOS compatible processing of vertical GaN power devices. The epitaxial stack contains a 5 $$\upmu$$
μ
m thick drift layers with a Si doping density of 2 × 1016 cm−3 and total threading dislocation density of 4 × 108 cm−2. The thick drift layer requires fine-tuning of the epitaxial growth conditions to keep wafer bow under control and to avoid the formation of surface defects. Diode test structures processed with this epitaxial stack achieved hard breakdown voltages > 750 V, which is shown to be limited by impurity or metal diffusion from the contact metal stack into threading dislocations. Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy (cAFM) reveals some leakage contribution from mixed type dislocations, which have their core structure identified as the double 5/6 atom configuration by scanning transmission electron microscopy images. Modelling of the leakage conduction mechanism with one-dimensional hopping conduction shows good agreement with the experimental data, and the resulting fitting parameters are compared to similar findings on silicon substrates. The outcome of this work is important to understand the possibilities and limitations of vertical GaN devices fabricated on large diameter wafers.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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