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Low Leakage Ferroelectric Heteroepitaxial Al$_{0.7}$Sc$_{0.3}$N Films on GaN (2407.14037v1)

Published 19 Jul 2024 in physics.app-ph and cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Abstract: Wurtzite (Al,Sc)N ferroelectrics are attractive for microelectronics applications due to their chemical and epitaxial structural compatibility with wurtzite semiconductors such as GaN and (Al,Ga)N. However, the leakage current in epitaxial stacks reported to date should be reduced for reliable device operation. Following the tradition of other semiconductor heterostructures, crystalline structural quality, as measured by breadth of diffraction peaks and correlating with dislocation density, is commonly used as a proxy for leakage current, but we demonstrate here that the crystalline mosaicity that dominates the broadening of diffraction peaks in epitaxial Al${0.7}$Sc${0.3}$N stacks does not dominate leakage current. We report here well-saturated ferroelectric hysteresis loops and orders of magnitude lower leakage current (0.07 A cm${-2}$) compared to values reported in literature (1 ~ 19 A cm${-2}$) for sputter-deposited epitaxial Al${0.7}$Sc${0.3}$N/GaN of comparable crystalline quality to prior reports. Further, we show Al${0.7}$Sc${0.3}$N on lattice-matched InGaN buffers with improved structural characteristics exhibits increased leakage characteristics. This demonstration and understanding can help to guide further efforts towards reliable wurtzite ferroelectric devices and prioritize approaches targeting further leakage current reduction.

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