In-situ Patterned Damage-Free Etching of 3-Dimensional Structures in \b{eta}-Ga2O3 using Triethylgallium

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Das, Nabasindhu, Alema, Fikadu, Brand, William, Katta, Abishek, Gilankar, Advait, Osinsky, Andrei, Kalarickal, Nidhin Kurian
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866914909533503488
author Das, Nabasindhu
Alema, Fikadu
Brand, William
Katta, Abishek
Gilankar, Advait
Osinsky, Andrei
Kalarickal, Nidhin Kurian
author_facet Das, Nabasindhu
Alema, Fikadu
Brand, William
Katta, Abishek
Gilankar, Advait
Osinsky, Andrei
Kalarickal, Nidhin Kurian
contents In this work, we report on the anisotropic etching characteristics of \b{eta}-Ga2O3 using triethylgallium (TEGa) performed in-situ within an MOCVD chamber. At sufficiently high substrate temperature, TEGa can act as a strong etchant for \b{eta}-Ga2O3 utilizing the suboxide reaction between Ga and Ga2O3. We observe that due to monoclinic crystal structure of \b{eta}-Ga2O3, TEGa etching on both (010) and (001) substrates is highly anisotropic in nature, both in terms of sidewall roughness and lateral etch rate. Smooth sidewalls are only obtained along crystal orientations that minimize sidewall surface energy. Utilizing this technique we also demonstrate deep sub-micron fins with smooth sidewalls and high aspect ratios. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the damage free nature of TEGa etching by fabricating Schottky diodes on the etched surface which display no change in net donor concentration.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2408_05824
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle In-situ Patterned Damage-Free Etching of 3-Dimensional Structures in \b{eta}-Ga2O3 using Triethylgallium
Das, Nabasindhu
Alema, Fikadu
Brand, William
Katta, Abishek
Gilankar, Advait
Osinsky, Andrei
Kalarickal, Nidhin Kurian
Materials Science
Applied Physics
In this work, we report on the anisotropic etching characteristics of \b{eta}-Ga2O3 using triethylgallium (TEGa) performed in-situ within an MOCVD chamber. At sufficiently high substrate temperature, TEGa can act as a strong etchant for \b{eta}-Ga2O3 utilizing the suboxide reaction between Ga and Ga2O3. We observe that due to monoclinic crystal structure of \b{eta}-Ga2O3, TEGa etching on both (010) and (001) substrates is highly anisotropic in nature, both in terms of sidewall roughness and lateral etch rate. Smooth sidewalls are only obtained along crystal orientations that minimize sidewall surface energy. Utilizing this technique we also demonstrate deep sub-micron fins with smooth sidewalls and high aspect ratios. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the damage free nature of TEGa etching by fabricating Schottky diodes on the etched surface which display no change in net donor concentration.
title In-situ Patterned Damage-Free Etching of 3-Dimensional Structures in \b{eta}-Ga2O3 using Triethylgallium
topic Materials Science
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05824