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Effect of Annealing Temperature on Performances of Boron-Doped Diamond Metal–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors

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Publication Date2020-02-26
JournalIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
AuthorsJiangwei Liu, Tokuyuki Teraji, Bo Da, Hirotaka Ohsato, Yasuo Koide
InstitutionsNational Institute for Materials Science
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In this article, we report the fabrication and characterization of boron-doped diamond (B-diamond) Schottky diodes and MESFETs. Effects of annealing at 573- 973 K on the electrical properties of these devices are investigated. Current density maximum for the as-fabricated Schottky diode is 0.05 A/cm <sup xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;2&lt;/sup> at a gate voltage of -10.0 V. Annealing at 673 and 973 K makes it increase first to 0.70 A/cm2 and decrease lately to 0.07 A/cm <sup xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;2&lt;/sup> , respectively. ON/OFF ratios for the as-fabricated B-diamond Schottky diode exceed 4.5 × 10 <sup xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;8&lt;/sup> at the OFF-voltage (V <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;OFF&lt;/sub> ) of 0 V and 3.2 × 10 <sup xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;6&lt;/sup> at V <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;OFF&lt;/sub> = 42.0 V. For the annealed Schottky diode, the ON/OFF ratios are higher than 1.7 × 106 at V <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;OFF&lt;/sub> <; 6.0 V. Ideality factor and barrier height for Au/Pt bilayer gates on the B-diamond channel layer range from 1.05 to 1.78 and from 1.24 to 1.56 eV, respectively. All three B-diamond MESFETs with the gate lengths of 12.0, 7.0, and 4.3 μm, respectively, operate with p-type channel characteristics. The drain current maxima for the as-fabricated MESFETs are -0.11, -0.16, and -0.39 mA/mm. After annealing at 773 K, these values increase to -0.17, -0.24, and -0.55 mA/mm. Annealing at 773 K also increases the extrinsic transconductance maxima for the three MESFETs from 11.1, 11.0, and 10.4 μS/mm to 18.6, 16.2, and 14.4 μS/mm, respectively.

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