Oxygen effect on the performance of β-Ga2O3 enhancement mode MOSFETs heteroepitaxially grown on a sapphire

β-Ga2O3 is regarded as a promising candidate for next-generation high-power devices; however, the impact of material quality on device performance is significant and not yet well understood. In this study, β-Ga2O3 heteroepilayers were grown on c-plane sapphire using metalorganic chemical vapor depos...

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Main Authors: Yueh-Han Chuang, Fu-Gow Tarntair, Tzu-Wei Wang, Anoop Kumar Singh, Po-Liang Liu, Dong-Sing Wuu, Hao-Chung Kuo, Xiuling Li, Ray-Hua Horng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-03-01
Series:Applied Surface Science Advances
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666523925000200
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Summary:β-Ga2O3 is regarded as a promising candidate for next-generation high-power devices; however, the impact of material quality on device performance is significant and not yet well understood. In this study, β-Ga2O3 heteroepilayers were grown on c-plane sapphire using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) at three different O2 flow rates. Enhancement-mode β-Ga2O3 metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) were then fabricated with a gate-recessed process, incorporating a 5 µm gate field plate structure. Higher O2 flow rates resulted in increased breakdown voltage. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis suggests that this improvement is due to reduced oxygen vacancies and minimized Al diffusion from the substrate. First-principle simulations further confirmed this phenomenon.
ISSN:2666-5239