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Effect of microwave treatment on current flow mechanisms in Au-TiBx-Al-Ti-n+-n-n+-GaN-Al2O3 ohmic contacts

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The temperature dependences of the contact resistivity ρc of Au-TiBx Al-Ti-n+-n-n+-GaN-Al2O3 ohmic contacts have been studied before and after microwave treatment followed by nine-nonth room-temperature sample storage. The temperature dependences of ρc of initial samples were measured twice. The first measurement showed the temperature dependence typical of ohmic contacts; the repeated measurement in the temperature region above 270 K showed a ρc increase caused by metallic conductivity. After microwave treatment, the metallic conductivity in the ohmic contact is not observed. This is presumably associated with local heating of metal Ga inclusions under microwave irradiation and the formation, due to high chemical activity of liquid gallium, of compounds of it with other metallization components. In this case, the temperature dependence of ρc is controlled by ordinary charge transport mechanisms. After nine-nonth room-temperature storage, the temperature dependence of ?c is described by the tunneling mechanism of charge transport.

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  1. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences, pr. Nauki 41, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

    A. E. Belyaev, S. A. Vitusevich, R. V. Konakova, Ya. Ya. Kudryk, V. V. Milenin & V. N. Sheremet

  2. Orion Research Institute, ul. Eugene Pottier 8a, Kiev, 03057, Ukraine

    N. S. Boltovets & V. N. Ivanov

  3. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Polytekhnicheskaya 26, St.Petersburg, 194021, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.E. Belyaev, N.S. Boltovets, S.A. Vitusevich, V.N. Ivanov, R. V. Konakova, Ya. Ya. Kudryk, A.A. Lebedev, V. V. Milenin, Yu.N. Sveshnikov, V.N. Sheremet, 2010, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 775–781.

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Belyaev, A.E., Boltovets, N.S., Vitusevich, S.A. et al. Effect of microwave treatment on current flow mechanisms in Au-TiBx-Al-Ti-n+-n-n+-GaN-Al2O3 ohmic contacts. Semiconductors 44, 745–751 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782610060102

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