• DocumentCode
    3589765
  • Title

    Au electromigration and Ti segregation in TiPtAu gate of PHEMTs

  • Author

    Yun Huang ; Shajin Li

  • Author_Institution
    Sci. & Technol. on Reliability Phys. & Applic. of Electron. Component Lab., Guangzhou, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    153
  • Lastpage
    156
  • Abstract
    In the paper, an evaluation structure was designed to investigate the degradation of gate metal in PHEMTs, and it can be used to separately appraise the resisted electromigration levels of the evaporated Ti/Pt/Au and the electroplated Au. The results show that the electromigration resistant level of electroplated Au of Ti/Pt/Au-Au is at least four times lower than that of the evaporated Ti/Pt/Au. For the elements of Au, Ga and Ti in gate metal of Ti/Pt/Au-Au, the degradation of diffusing migration was observed by SIMS. In addition, serious segregation and influx for the element of Ti destroyed the performance of the Schottky barrier in gate structure.
  • Keywords
    Schottky barriers; electromigration; electroplating; high electron mobility transistors; segregation; titanium compounds; PHEMT; Schottky barrier; TiPtAu; electromigration resistant level; gate metal; gate structure; Degradation; Electromigration; Gold; Logic gates; PHEMTs; Thermal stability; PHEMT; electromigration; segregation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS), 2014 International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-6631-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICRMS.2014.7107158
  • Filename
    7107158