A kind of gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves
Technical field
The invention belongs to field effect transistor technical fields, relate to a kind of gallium nitride tune with height grid and more grooves
Doped field effect transistor processed.
Background technique
Phase at the end of the 20th century, gallium nitride is with its biggish forbidden bandwidth, higher electron saturation velocities, high-breakdown-voltage and resists
The features such as irradiation, becomes current Deep trench termination and systematic research hot spot.And in wide bandgap semiconductor device, modulation is mixed
Miscellaneous field effect transistor (MODFET) has the advantages such as high-frequency, high power density, high-breakdown-voltage and higher efficiency, because
This is widely used in the national defence such as commercial communication, Internet of Things, oil exploration, aerospace, radar system, civil field
Prospect.
Now in high power device application, the gallium nitride modulation-doped FET of traditional structure can not expire
The present high performance demands of foot.Currently, most of documents are dedicated to gallium nitride modulation-doped FET using periphery
Circuit is regulated and controled and is compensated to transistor, and this kind of research does not optimize improvement from the internal structure of transistor, this kind of
Design frequently can lead to the problems such as transistor breakdown characteristics situation is undesirable, mutual conductance ability of regulation and control is not strong enough, the output to device
The important performances such as power, power added efficiency generate extreme influence.
Summary of the invention
Present invention aims at improve conventional gallium nitride modulation-doped FET, make it have 1. obtain it is biggish
Current density;2. weakening current collapse effect;3. improving the control ability of gate electrode;4. it is excellent to improve breakdown voltage of device etc.
Point meets at present the needs of for large power semiconductor device.A kind of gallium nitride tune with height grid and more grooves is provided
Doped field effect transistor processed.
The technical solution that the present invention is disclosed directly below realizes above-mentioned target.
A kind of gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves, structure are distinguished from bottom to top
For Sapphire Substrate, aluminium nitride (AlN) nucleating layer, gallium nitride (GaN) channel layer, aluminum gallium nitride (n-AlGaN) barrier layer;In gallium aluminium
Nitrogen barrier layer upper left and right side are respectively provided with source region and drain region, in the upper surface of source region and drain region
It is respectively provided with source electrode and drain electrode;There is gate electrode, gate electrode middle part at source electrode in aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer upper center
For high grid, high grid two sides are the low grid in a left side and right low grid of gate electrode, and the high grid are in table in aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer for bottom
The middle part of the gate electrode in face;The low grid in a left side are that the bottom on the left of high grid is electric lower than the grid of the upper surface of aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer
The left side of pole;The low grid in the right side, the right side for the bottom on the right side of high grid lower than the gate electrode of the upper surface of aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer;
Hetero-junctions channel is formed at the interface of gallium nitride (GaN) channel layer and aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer, forms two-dimensional electron gas at channel;?
The first groove and second that there is recess to be formed for the underface of gallium nitride (GaN) channel layer upper surface, left low grid and right low grid are recessed
Slot.
Preferably, the low grid in a left side and right low grid in gate electrode, are to be formed by aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer surface by chemical wet etching
After groove, by the Schottky contacts of metal and semiconductor, formed in aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer groove.
Preferably, the high grid in gate electrode are metals by carrying out schottky junctions after touch with aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer upper surface
It is formed.
Preferably, the first groove and the second groove of gallium nitride channel layer upper surface, is passed through in gallium nitride channel layer
Chemical wet etching is formed.
Preferably, the transverse width of entire device is 6 μm;Aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer both ends with a thickness of 30nm;Gallium nitride
Channel layer both ends with a thickness of 2.5 μm.
Preferably, the width of high grid is 0.5-0.7 μm;The width of left low grid and right low grid is 0.2-0.5 μm;Left low grid and
Right low grid are 2-5nm lower than the depth of high grid bottom;The width of first groove and the second groove is 0.3-0.7 μm;First groove
Depth with the second groove is 1-4nm.
Preferably, the width of high grid is 0.5 μm;The width of left low grid and right low grid is 0.25 μm;Left low grid and right low grid
Depth lower than high grid bottom is 5nm;The width of first groove and the second groove is 0.6 μm;First groove and the second groove
Depth is 4nm.
Preferably, the equivalent width of the distance between the second groove and the first groove and high grid.
Preferably, the width of the second groove and the first groove is greater than or equal to the width of left low grid left low grid and right low grid.
A kind of gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves disclosed by the invention, have with
Lower usefulness:
1. obtaining biggish current density
N-AlGaN barrier layer 4 under high grid 10 is thicker, by theory it is found that the DC current density of transistor and gate electrode 9
Under 4 thickness correlation of n-AlGaN barrier layer, therefore the presence of high grid 10 can obtain biggish current density (phase
For gate electrode structure not of the invention).
2. weakening current collapse effect
More just due to 9 voltage of gate electrode, 4 depletion region of n-AlGaN barrier layer can be made to extend, when positively biased reaches a certain level
When, depletion region can reach GaN channel layer 3, reduce 13 concentration of two-dimensional electron gas, to reduce maximum saturation leakage current, form electricity
Flow pull-in effect.The presence of high grid 10 increases the effective thickness of n-AlGaN barrier layer 4, to reduce depletion layer to GaN
The extension of channel layer 3 weakens current collapse effect.
3. improving the control ability of gate electrode
4 thickness of n-AlGaN barrier layer under left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is smaller, compared to high grid 10, left low 11 He of grid
4 thinner thickness of n-AlGaN barrier layer under right low grid 12, therefore under identical voltage range, left low grid 11 and right low grid 12
Control reference voltage it is stronger.Under the collective effect of high grid 10, left low grid 11 and right low grid 12, field-effect of the present invention
Transistor not only has biggish current density, and gate electrode 9 also has biggish current regulation ability.
4. improving the breakdown voltage of device
Due to the presence of left low grid 11, right low grid 12, the first groove 14 and the second groove 15,9 test leakage of gate electrode can be improved
Electric field concentration effect.When drain-to-gate voltage is larger, the distribution of electric field will be modulated, i.e., in left low grid 11, right low grid 12, first
15 test leakage of groove 14 and the second groove (if figure is right side to recessed) apex forms multiple electric field peaks, can by Poisson's equation
Know, under breakdown conditions, the size of breakdown voltage is definite integral of the electric field from source electrode 7 to from drain electrode 8, more due to producing
The distribution at a electric field peak, electric field is modulated, and therefore, the breakdown voltage of the structure transistor is improved.
The gallium nitride modulation-doped FET of the structure has following usefulness:
1. obtaining biggish current density;2. weakening current collapse effect;3. improving the control ability of gate electrode;4. improving
The breakdown voltage of device.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is the gallium nitride modulation-doped FET schematic diagram with height grid and groove structure.
1 it is Sapphire Substrate, 2 be aluminium nitride (AlN) nucleating layer, 3 be gallium nitride (GaN) channel layer, 4 is aluminum gallium nitride (n-
AlGaN) barrier layer, 5 be source electrode, 6 be drain electrode, 7 be source electrode, 8 be drain electrode, 9 be gate electrode, 10 be high grid, 11 be left low
Grid, 12 be right low grid, 13 be two-dimensional electron gas, 14 be the first groove, 15 be the second groove.
Specific embodiment
In order to obtain with biggish current density, smaller current pull-in effect, higher gate electrode control ability, compared with
The gallium nitride modulation-doped field effect crystal for wearing voltage hit greatly below carries out technical solution in the embodiment of the present invention clear
Chu is fully described by.Obviously, described embodiment is only the embodiment of a part of the invention, instead of all the embodiments.
Based on the embodiments of the present invention, obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts all
Other embodiments should fall within the scope of the present invention.
Embodiment 1
The structure of improved GaN high electron mobility transistor is as follows.
In the present embodiment, a kind of gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves.Knot
Structure is respectively Sapphire Substrate 1, AlN (aluminium nitride) nucleating layer 2, GaN (gallium nitride) channel layer 3, n-AlGaN (aluminium from bottom to top
Gallium nitrogen) barrier layer 4.6 regions of 5 region of source electrode and drain electrode are respectively provided in 4 upper left of n-AlGaN barrier layer and right side, in source
The upper surface in 6 regions of 5 region of pole and drain electrode is respectively provided with source electrode 7 and drain electrode 8.It is leaned in 4 upper center of n-AlGaN barrier layer
There is gate electrode 9 at nearly source electrode 5, be high grid 10 in the middle part of gate electrode, high 10 two sides of grid are left low grid 11 and right low grid 12, described
High grid are in the middle part of the gate electrode of 4 upper surface of aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer for bottom;The low grid in a left side, are the bottom on the left of high grid
Left side of the portion lower than the gate electrode of the upper surface of aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer 4;The low grid in the right side are that the bottom on the right side of high grid is lower than aluminium
The right side of the gate electrode of the upper surface of gallium nitrogen barrier layer 4;The bottom of high grid i.e. in the middle part of gate electrode is in aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer 4
Surface, left low grid 11, right low grid 12 are respectively the left side for being located at high grid, the gate electrode on right side, and are somebody's turn to do positioned at left side, the right side of high grid
(upper surface that is lower than aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer 4) of the bottom of the gate electrode of side lower than the high grid bottom at middle part.In GaN (nitridation
Gallium) interface of channel layer 3 and n-AlGaN barrier layer 4 forms hetero-junctions channel, two-dimensional electron gas 13 is formed at channel.In GaN
The first groove 14 that there is recess to be formed for the underface of 3 upper surface of (gallium nitride) channel layer, left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 and the
Two grooves 15.
2. the aforementioned gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves, which is characterized in that grid electricity
The low grid in a left side 11 and right low grid 12 in pole 9, be by 4 surface of n-AlGaN barrier layer after chemical wet etching forms groove, pass through gold
Belong to the Schottky contacts with semiconductor, is formed in 4 groove of n-AlGaN barrier layer.
3. the aforementioned gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves, which is characterized in that grid electricity
High grid 10 in pole 9 are that metal is formed after touch by carrying out schottky junctions with 4 upper surface of n-AlGaN barrier layer.
4. the aforementioned gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves, which is characterized in that GaN ditch
The first groove 14 and the second groove 15 of 3 upper surface of channel layer, are all to be formed in GaN channel layer by chemical wet etching.
5, preferably, the aforementioned gallium nitride modulation-doped FET with height grid and more grooves, feature exist
In the transverse width of entire device is 6 μm;N-AlGaN barrier layer 4 with a thickness of 30nm on the left of device;GaN channel on the left of device
Layer 3 with a thickness of 2.5 μm.
The width of high grid 10 is 0.5-0.7 μm;The width of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 0.2-0.5 μm;Left low grid 11
Depth with right low grid 12 is 2-5nm;The width of first groove 14 and the second groove 15 is 0.3-0.7 μm;First groove, 14 He
The depth of second groove 15 is 1-4nm.
Embodiment 2
In the present embodiment, the width of the high grid 10 is 0.5 μm;The width of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 0.25 μm;
The depth of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 5nm;The width of first groove 14 and the second groove 15 is 0.3 μm;First groove 14
Depth with the second groove 15 is 4nm.
The width of high grid 10 is 0.5 μm;The width of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 0.25 μm;Left low grid 11 and right low grid
12 depth is 5nm;The width of first groove 14 and the second groove 15 is 0.6 μm;The depth of first groove 14 and the second groove 15
Degree is 4nm.
Remaining technical solution of the present embodiment is same as Example 1.
Embodiment 3
In the present embodiment, the width of the high grid 10 is 0.55 μm;The width of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 0.3 μm;
The depth of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 4nm;The width of first groove 14 and the second groove 15 is 0.35 μm;First groove 14
Depth with the second groove 15 is 3nm.
Remaining technical solution of the present embodiment is same as Example 1.
Embodiment 4
In the present embodiment, the width of the high grid 10 is 0.6 μm;The width of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 0.35 μm;
The depth of left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is 3nm;The width of first groove 14 and the second groove 15 is 0.4 μm;First groove 14
Depth with the second groove 15 is 2nm.
Remaining technical solution of the present embodiment is same as Example 1.
Embodiment 5
In the present embodiment, the low grid 11 in the left side are 1 μm apart from 5 right side distance of source electrode;First groove 14 is on the left of device
2 μm of boundary;Second groove 15 at a distance from the first groove 14 with the equivalent width of high grid 10.
Remaining technical solution of the present embodiment is identical as embodiment 2,3 or 4.
Core of the invention be make the gallium nitride modulation-doped FET of new construction obtain biggish current density,
Weaken current collapse effect, improve the control ability of gate electrode and improves the breakdown voltage of device.It is compared to traditional nitrogen
Change gallium modulation-doped FET, a kind of gallium nitride modulation doping field with height grid and more grooves disclosed by the invention
Effect transistor, the n-AlGaN barrier layer 4 under high grid 10 is thicker, by theory it is found that the DC current density of transistor and grid electricity
4 thickness correlation of n-AlGaN barrier layer under pole 9, therefore the presence of high grid 10 can obtain biggish current density;
More just due to 9 voltage of gate electrode, 4 depletion region of n-AlGaN barrier layer can be made to extend, when positively biased reaches a certain level, exhausted
Area can reach GaN channel layer 3, reduce 13 concentration of two-dimensional electron gas, to reduce maximum saturation leakage current, form current collapse effect
It answers.The presence of high grid 10 increases the effective thickness of n-AlGaN barrier layer 4, to reduce depletion layer to GaN channel layer 3
Extension, weaken current collapse effect;4 thickness of n-AlGaN barrier layer under left low grid 11 and right low grid 12 is smaller, compared to height
Grid 10, left low grid 11 and 4 thinner thickness of n-AlGaN barrier layer under right low grid 12, therefore under identical voltage range, it is left low
The control reference voltage of grid 11 and right low grid 12 is stronger.Under the collective effect of high grid 10, left low grid 11 and right low grid 12, this hair
The bright field effect transistor not only has biggish current density, and gate electrode 9 also has biggish current regulation ability;By
In the presence of left low grid 11, right low grid 12, the first groove 14 and the second groove 15, the electric field that can improve 9 test leakage of gate electrode is concentrated
Effect.When drain-to-gate voltage is larger, the distribution of electric field will be modulated, i.e., in left low grid 11, right low grid 12, the first groove 14 and the
Two grooves, 15 vertex goes out to form multiple electric field peaks, by Poisson's equation it is found that under breakdown conditions, the size of breakdown voltage is electric field
From definite integral of the source electrode 7 to from drain electrode 8, due to producing multiple electric field peaks, the distribution of electric field is modulated, therefore, the knot
The breakdown voltage of structure transistor is improved.
Obviously, the described embodiments are merely a part of the embodiments of the present invention, instead of all the embodiments.Based on this
Embodiment in invention, every other reality obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts
Example is applied, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.