Group-III nitride devices and systems on IBAD-textured substrates

    公开(公告)号:USRE49869E1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17214607

    申请日:2021-03-26

    摘要: A multilayer structure including a hexagonal epitaxial layer, such as GaN or other group III-nitride (III-N) semiconductors, a oriented textured layer, and a non-single crystal substrate, and methods for making the same. The textured layer has a crystalline alignment preferably formed by the ion-beam assisted deposition (IBAD) texturing process and can be biaxially aligned. The in-plane crystalline texture of the textured layer is sufficiently low to allow growth of high quality hexagonal material, but can still be significantly greater than the required in-plane crystalline texture of the hexagonal material. The IBAD process enables low-cost, large-area, flexible metal foil substrates to be used as potential alternatives to single-crystal sapphire and silicon for manufacture of electronic devices, enabling scaled-up roll-to-roll, sheet-to-sheet, or similar fabrication processes to be used. The user is able to choose a substrate for its mechanical and thermal properties, such as how well its coefficient of thermal expansion matches that of the hexagonal epitaxial layer, while choosing a textured layer that more closely lattice matches that layer. Electronic devices such as LEDs can be manufactured from such structures. Because the substrate can act as both a reflector and a heat sink, transfer to other substrates, and use of external reflectors and heat sinks, is not required, greatly reducing costs. Large area devices such as light emitting strips or sheets may be fabricated using this technology.

    SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230343588A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US18297657

    申请日:2023-04-10

    IPC分类号: H01L21/02

    摘要: A semiconductor structure includes a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate, a nucleation layer and a gallium nitride (GaN) layer. The silicon carbide layer has a first thickness T1. The nucleation layer is located on the silicon carbide layer and has a second thickness T2. The nucleation layer is made of AlGaN (AlGaN), and the second thickness T2 fulfills a thickness range of T1*0.002% to T1*0.006%. The gallium nitride layer is located on the nucleation layer and is separated from the silicon carbide substrate.