Nanofabrication of normally-off GaN vertical nanowire MESFETs.
NANOTECHNOLOGY(2019)
摘要
Gallium nitride (GaN) all-around (wrap) gate vertical nanowire (V-NW) field-effect transistors (FETs) are favorable for enhanced electrostatic control of the gate and selectivity for normally on/off operation. In this work, GaN V-NW FETs with a Schottky barrier gate (V-NW MESFETs), were fabricated for the first time. A nanofabrication process with comprehensive description of all processing steps is reported. It was validated with the demonstration of GaN V-NW MESFETs consisting of an array of 900 (30 x 30) GaN NWs with the narrowest until now reported diameter of 100 nm and all-around gate length of 250 nm. The GaN NWs were formed by a top-down approach, which combines conventional nanopatterning techniques and anisotropic wet etching of an initial GaN epilayer, grown by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy on a sapphire (0001) substrate. DC I-V characteristics exhibited normally-off operation and threshold voltage of +0.4 V, due to electron depletion region from the all-around Schottky barrier. A maximum drain-source current density (J(ds)) of 330 A cm(-2) and maximum transconductance (g(m)) of 285 S cm(-2) were obtained from I-V measurements. The results and directions for further optimization were discussed.
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GaN nanowire,GaN etching,MESFETs,normally-off,vertical transistors
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