Document Type

Article

Original Publication Date

2003

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Applied Physics Letters

Volume

82

Issue

20

DOI of Original Publication

10.1063/1.1572532

Comments

Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1572532

Date of Submission

April 2015

Abstract

KOH etch was investigated as a means to improve the I–Vcharacteristics of Schottky diodes onn-type GaNgrown by molecular-beam epitaxy on sapphire, or on hydride vapor phase epitaxy templates. Atomic force microscopy images and I–Vcharacteristics are presented. After etching as-grown films in molten KOH, Schottky diodes on c-plane GaN had orders of magnitude reduction in reverse leakage current. The best devices had leakage currents less than 10−12 A (10−8 A/cm2) at −5 V, and ideality factors of 1.04. Measurements on several different sample structures indicate a correlation between surface roughness and saturation current, and an improvement in ideality factor when etched in KOH. Phosphoric acid was also investigated, but did not result in significant improvements in I–Vcharacteristics.

Rights

Spradlin. J., Dogan. S., Mikkelson, M., et al. Improvement of n-GaN Schottky diode rectifying characteristics using KOH etching. Applied Physics Letters, 82, 3556 (2003). Copyright © 2003 AIP Publishing LLC.

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