EAGER: Diamond Delta Doped p FET

EAGER：金刚石 Delta 掺杂 p FET

• 批准号: 1747847
• 负责人: Aristos Christou
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Diamond; Delta; Doped; FET

TITLE: A New Diamond Transistor for Future High Power RF Electronics and High Voltage SwitchesABSTRACTNontechnical: Over the last seven decades, the silicon technology has dominated solid state electronics. However, the silicon-based semiconductor technology cannot handle the power levels and switching frequencies anticipated by the next generation of power applications. This EAGER project aims to create the prototype of high power diamond based transistors with properties that are beyond the scope of current devices in terms of operating frequency, power handling capacity, operating voltage, and operating environment. Such diamond based semiconductor devices can eliminate the majority of the power losses that currently occur during AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC electricial conversion, operate at voltages up to 30 times higher than silicon-based devices, and operate at temperatures above 300°C, twice what silicon electronics can tolerate. These devices may revolutionize power distribution and conditioning, allowing for a more versatile and stable power grid with efficient access to non-traditional power sources, to improved efficiencies for electric motor drives, and to improved microwave and millimeter wave sources. Many of these devices will be appropriate for operation in harsh chemical, biological, thermal, or radiological environments. This research will provide a proof of principle for diamond-based high voltage devices and high frequency devices and will also enable the accurate design of diamond based FETs, which will exploit advantages of increased temperature and voltage insensitivity of 2D structures. As a result, the research will lay the foundation for the development of wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor diamond technologies, which will both outperform current Si, SiC and GaN high voltage device characteristics and will have much higher voltage and temperature tolerance. Technical: The present NSF EAGER research project is to demonstrate a new transistor concept based on two dimensional hole gas (2DHG) channels in diamond thereby extending the basic science of diamond 2D transport channels to high-voltage devices as well as high frequency power devices. This objective will be achieved through correlations between experimental results with device design as well as with basic models of charge transport. Our proposed research will investigate the fundamental device physics of diamond based field effect transistors (FETs) for high power and high voltage applications. These diamond based FETs will exploit multiple sub surface nanometer thick boron ä-doped channels which have been fabricated via the precision control of chemical vapor deposition chemistry. The proposed plan is to achieve unique and innovative device structures through the fabrication of two dimensional conduction channels on single crystal (100) diamond epitaxial layers grown on diamond substrates. The research is based on the fundamental understanding of the delta doping and carrier channel formation in diamond 2D channel devices, and will employ the unique facilities available at the University of Maryland. The research approach consists of the design and fabrication of double delta doped FETs based on an optimized channel dopant profile, as well as utilization of insulating gate materials complex dielectrics for surface passivation. Device electrical performance will be characterized after fabrication. Investigations on ä-doped channel FETs will also consist of in depth device modeling and electrical and physical characterization of performance.

标题：一种用于未来大功率射频电子和高压开关的新型金刚石晶体管摘要非技术性：在过去的七十年里，硅技术一直主导着固态电子。然而，基于硅的半导体技术无法处理下一代功率应用所预期的功率水平和开关频率。该EAGER项目旨在创建高功率金刚石晶体管的原型，其性能超出了当前器件在工作频率，功率处理能力，工作电压和工作环境方面的范围。这种基于金刚石的半导体器件可以消除目前在AC到DC和DC到AC电转换期间发生的大部分功率损耗，在比基于硅的器件高30倍的电压下工作，并且在300°C以上的温度下工作，这是硅电子器件可以容忍的温度的两倍。 这些设备可以彻底改变电力分配和调节，允许更通用和稳定的电网，有效地访问非传统电源，提高电动机驱动器的效率，并改进微波和毫米波源。这些设备中的许多将适合在恶劣的化学、生物、热或辐射环境中操作。这项研究将为基于金刚石的高压器件和高频器件提供原理证明，也将使基于金刚石的FET的精确设计成为可能，这将利用2D结构的温度和电压不敏感性增加的优势。因此，该研究将为宽带隙（WBG）半导体金刚石技术的发展奠定基础，该技术将优于当前的Si，SiC和GaN高压器件特性，并具有更高的电压和温度耐受性。技术支持：目前的NSF EAGER研究项目是基于金刚石中的二维空穴气体（2DHG）通道展示一种新的晶体管概念，从而将金刚石2D传输通道的基础科学扩展到高压器件以及高频功率器件。这一目标将通过实验结果与器件设计以及电荷传输的基本模型之间的相关性来实现。我们拟议的研究将研究用于高功率和高电压应用的金刚石基场效应晶体管（FET）的基本器件物理。 这些基于金刚石的FET将利用多个亚表面纳米厚的硼掺杂沟道，这些沟道是通过精确控制化学气相沉积化学来制造的。提出的计划是通过在金刚石衬底上生长的单晶（100）金刚石外延层上制造二维导电沟道来实现独特和创新的器件结构。 这项研究是基于对金刚石2D沟道器件中delta掺杂和载流子沟道形成的基本理解，并将采用马里兰州大学提供的独特设施。 研究方法包括基于优化的沟道掺杂剂分布的双delta掺杂FET的设计和制造，以及利用绝缘栅极材料复合物用于表面钝化。器械电气性能将在制造后表征。对掺杂沟道FET的研究还包括深入的器件建模以及性能的电气和物理表征。