Uncovering the properties of homo-epitaxial GaN devices through cross-sectional infrared nanoscopy
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| author | Zandipour, Hossein Kaps, Felix Buschbeck, Robin Obst, Maximilian Senarath, Aditha Niemann, Richarda Mueller, Niclas S. Alvarez-Perez, Gonzalo Diaz-Granados, Katja Kowalski, Ryan A Wetzel, Jakob Iyer, Raghunandan Balasubramanyam Wortel, Matthew Klopf, J. Michael Anderson, Travis Jacobs, Alan Ebrish, Mona Eng, Lukas M. Paarman, Alexander Kehr, Susanne C. Caldwell, Joshua D. Folland, Thomas G. |
| author_facet | Zandipour, Hossein Kaps, Felix Buschbeck, Robin Obst, Maximilian Senarath, Aditha Niemann, Richarda Mueller, Niclas S. Alvarez-Perez, Gonzalo Diaz-Granados, Katja Kowalski, Ryan A Wetzel, Jakob Iyer, Raghunandan Balasubramanyam Wortel, Matthew Klopf, J. Michael Anderson, Travis Jacobs, Alan Ebrish, Mona Eng, Lukas M. Paarman, Alexander Kehr, Susanne C. Caldwell, Joshua D. Folland, Thomas G. |
| contents | Validating material performance in electrical devices is crucial to product development. For Gallium Nitride (GaN) devices, evaluating material factors such as defects, dopant concentration, and overall production quality is essential to ensure their performance in advanced electronic and optoelectronic applications. This work demonstrates that scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) can meet the demanding performance requirements for characterizing homoepitaxial GaN devices. Specifically, we show that combining s-SNOM results in the mid-IR and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges can disentangle carrier and lattice changes in a GaN p-i-n diode, which is not possible using one spectral range alone. We observe strong, resonant near-field signals near the LO phonon mode of GaN that correlate well with point-dipole models. This data shows great sensitivity to the local carrier density, with changes on the order of 1018 cm-3 easily resolved experimentally. Further, we demonstrate high sensitivity to sub-surface defects, which remain a significant challenge for other non-destructive techniques. To validate the power of s-SNOM imaging, our results are compared to traditional metrologies, including micro-Raman mapping and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM). Our results show that s-SNOM shows superior resolution and sensitivity to perturbations, highlighting the power of this technique in semiconductor device characterization. |
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| spellingShingle | Uncovering the properties of homo-epitaxial GaN devices through cross-sectional infrared nanoscopy Zandipour, Hossein Kaps, Felix Buschbeck, Robin Obst, Maximilian Senarath, Aditha Niemann, Richarda Mueller, Niclas S. Alvarez-Perez, Gonzalo Diaz-Granados, Katja Kowalski, Ryan A Wetzel, Jakob Iyer, Raghunandan Balasubramanyam Wortel, Matthew Klopf, J. Michael Anderson, Travis Jacobs, Alan Ebrish, Mona Eng, Lukas M. Paarman, Alexander Kehr, Susanne C. Caldwell, Joshua D. Folland, Thomas G. Materials Science Validating material performance in electrical devices is crucial to product development. For Gallium Nitride (GaN) devices, evaluating material factors such as defects, dopant concentration, and overall production quality is essential to ensure their performance in advanced electronic and optoelectronic applications. This work demonstrates that scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) can meet the demanding performance requirements for characterizing homoepitaxial GaN devices. Specifically, we show that combining s-SNOM results in the mid-IR and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges can disentangle carrier and lattice changes in a GaN p-i-n diode, which is not possible using one spectral range alone. We observe strong, resonant near-field signals near the LO phonon mode of GaN that correlate well with point-dipole models. This data shows great sensitivity to the local carrier density, with changes on the order of 1018 cm-3 easily resolved experimentally. Further, we demonstrate high sensitivity to sub-surface defects, which remain a significant challenge for other non-destructive techniques. To validate the power of s-SNOM imaging, our results are compared to traditional metrologies, including micro-Raman mapping and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM). Our results show that s-SNOM shows superior resolution and sensitivity to perturbations, highlighting the power of this technique in semiconductor device characterization. |
| title | Uncovering the properties of homo-epitaxial GaN devices through cross-sectional infrared nanoscopy |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08858 |