We report on demonstrating high performance lateral β-Ga2O3 metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with source-connected field plate (FP) on a thin (150 nm) and highly Si-doped (n = 1.5 × 1018 cm−3) β-Ga2O3 epitaxial channel layer grown by ozone molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on Fe-doped semi-insulating (010) substrate. For a MOSFET with a gate-drain spacing (Lgd) of 25 μm, the three terminal off-state breakdown voltage (VBR) tested in Fluorinert ambient reaches 2321 V. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of lateral β-Ga2O3 MOSFET with high VBR of more than 2 kV and the highest VBR attained among all the Ga2O3 MOSFETs. The breakdown voltages with different Lgd from 5–25 μm ranged from 518–2321V, with a linear trend of increasing breakdown voltage for larger spacing lateral MOSFETs. Combining with high electrical performances and excellent material properties, source-connected FP lateral β-Ga2O3 MOSFET implies its great potential for next generation high-voltage and high-power switching devices applications above 2 kV.
Enhancement-mode (E-mode) Al 2 O 3 /AlGaN/GaN MISHEMTs were fabricated by shallow recess combined with CF 4 plasma treatment (SR/F) and deep recess (DR) to compare the effect of each process technique on the device performance. To prevent the device performance degradation induced by plasma damage during gate recess, the digital etch technique was employed. The fabricated E-mode devices have positively shifted threshold voltage, and exhibit lower transconductance (g m ) and saturation drain current than depletion-mode devices. Due to the CF 4 plasma damage during F-treatment, SR/F shows a sharp drop of g m curve and low saturation drain current. In contrast, DR presents broad g m and high saturation drain current. It is also revealed that the digital etch for gate recess exhibits an isotropic etch profile, consequently increasing the on-resistance. There is no remarkable difference between SR/F and DR in f T and f max , but DR has a better linearity over SR/F owing to the absence of plasma damage during F-treatment. This results reveal that the DR using digital etch is promising technique to obtain the high performance E-mode MISHEMTs compared to the F-treatment.
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