TITLE:
Deep Traps and Parasitic Effects in Al0.25Ga0.75N/GaN/SiC Heterostructures with Different Schottky Contact Surfaces
AUTHORS:
Salah Saadaoui, Olfa Fathallah, Mohamed Mongi Ben Salem, Christophe Gaquière, Hassen Maaref
KEYWORDS:
AlGaN/GaN HEMT, Capacitance Hysteresis, Deep Traps, Gate Surface Effect
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.8,
August
27,
2015
ABSTRACT: Hysteresis
phenomenon in the capacitance-voltage characteristics under reverse-biased
Schottky gate has been investigated for Al0.25Ga0.75N/GaN/SiC
structures having three different gate surfaces. This parasitic effect was
correlated with the presence of deep levels in our samples. Indeed, we have
noticed the presence of two traps named H1 and A1; their respective activation
energies, which are determined using capacitance deep level transient
spectroscopy (DLTS) are respectively 0.74 and 0.16 eV. The H1 hole trap was
associated to extended defect in the Al0.25Ga0.75N/ GaN heterostructure such as threading
dislocations and was responsible of capacitance hysteresis phenomenon. The A1 electron trap appears only
in the HEMT (1), which has the smaller Schottkycontact area. This trap was related to a
punctual defect and attributed to free surface states in the access region between the gate and the
source.