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Rapid thermal annealing (RTA) technology offers potential advantages for GaAs MESFET device technology such as reducing dopant diffusion and minimizing the redistribution of background impurities. LEC semi-insulating GaAs substrates were implanted with Si at energies from 100 to 400 keV to doses from 1 × 1012 to 1 × 1014/cm2. The wafers were encapsulated with Si3N4 and then annealed at temperatures from 850-1000° C in a commercial RTA system. Wafers were also annealed using a conventional furnace cycle at 850° C to provide a comparison with the RTA wafers. These implanted layers were evaluated using capacitance-voltage and Hall effect measurements. In addition, FET’s were fabricated using selective implants that were annealed with either RTA or furnace cycles. The effects of anneal temperature and anneal time were determined. For a dose of 4 × 1012/cm2 at 150 keV with anneal times of 5 seconds at 850, 900, 950 and 1000° C the activation steadily increased in the peak of the implant with overlapping profiles in the tail of the profiles, showing that no significant diffusion occurs. In addition, the same activation could be obtained by adjusting the anneal times. A plot of the equivalent anneal times versus 1/T gives an activation energy of 2.3 eV. At a higher dose of 3 × 1013 an activation energy of 1.7 eV was obtained. For a dose of 4 × 1012 at 150 keV both the RTA and furnace annealing give similar activations with mobilities between 4700 and 5000 cm2/V-s. Mobilities decrease to 4000 at a dose of 1 × 1013 and to 2500 cm2/V-s at 1 × 1014/cm2. At doses above 1 × 1013 the RTA cycles gave better activation than furnace annealed wafers. The MESFET parameters for both RTA and furnace annealed wafers were nearly identical. The average gain and noise figure at 8 GHz were 7.5 and 2.0, respectively, for packaged die from either RTA or furnace annealed materials.
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Paulson, W.M., Legge, R.N. & Weitzel, C.E. Rapid thermal annealing of si implanted gaas. J. Electron. Mater. 16, 187–193 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02655485
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