Abstract
Inversion- and depletion-type GaN metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) were fabricated on p- and n--type GaN epitaxial layers, respectively, grown on n+-type on-axis 4H-SiC(0001) substrates. After gate SiO2 was deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition at 350 °C, high-temperature annealing in N2 was carried out to modify the interface. The channel mobility was enhanced with increasing annealing temperature. The device annealed in N2 at 1100 °C after SiO2 deposition showed an inversion channel mobility of 108 cm2·V-1·s-1 at a gate voltage of 15 V. The authors also fabricated MOS capacitors on n--type GaN and characterized the interface state density at the SiO2/GaN interface from capacitance–voltage measurements using the Terman method, of which density was estimated to be in the range of (6–10)×1011 cm-2·eV-1 at an energy level of 0.2 eV below the conduction band edge. The interface state density tended to decrease with increasing annealing temperature, resulting in the improvement of the channel mobility.
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