• DocumentCode
    2746754
  • Title

    An Au/Pt/Ti/WNx ohmic contact to n-InGaAs and its application to AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs

  • Author

    Park, Sung Ho ; Kim, Il-Ho ; Lee, Tae-Woo ; Park, Moon-Phung

  • Author_Institution
    Semicond. Div., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    8-11 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    459
  • Lastpage
    462
  • Abstract
    We report the experiments that were performed to investigate the alloying temperature dependence of Au/Pt/Ti/WNx ohmic contacts to n-InGaAs. Very low resistance contacts (10-8~10 -7 Ωcm2) were obtained after RTA at the temperatures from 250 to 450°C. It was observed from XRD and AES analyses that there were no remarkable phase transformations for the contact system subjected to heat treatments. When Au/Pt/Ti/WNx ohmic contacts were applied to AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs, moderate DC and RF performances were also achieved. It is believed that these ohmic schemes can be used as stable and low resistance contacts for high temperature HBT applications
  • Keywords
    Auger effect; III-V semiconductors; X-ray diffraction; aluminium compounds; contact resistance; gallium arsenide; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; ohmic contacts; rapid thermal annealing; semiconductor device metallisation; 250 to 450 C; AES; AlGaAs-GaAs; AlGaAs/GaAs HBT; Au-Pt-Ti-WN; Au/Pt/Ti/WNx ohmic contact; DC performance; InGaAs; RF performance; RTA; XRD; alloying temperature dependence; contact resistance; heat treatment; high temperature HBT; n-InGaAs; phase transformation; Alloying; Contact resistance; Gallium arsenide; Gold; Heat treatment; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Ohmic contacts; Radio frequency; Temperature dependence; X-ray scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compound Semiconductors, 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7503-0556-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCS.1998.711704
  • Filename
    711704