CN118380461A - Device comprising variable potential multi-field plate structure - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a device with a variable-potential multi-field plate structure, which comprises a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a plurality of resistors and a plurality of field plates, wherein the number of the resistors is equal to that of the field plates, the field plates comprise first field plates and residual field plates, the first field plates are connected with the gate electrode, and the residual field plates are the rest; the residual field plate is connected between the source electrode and the drain electrode or between the gate electrode and the drain electrode through a resistor; the resistor is an external resistor, and the gate electrode or the source electrode, the residual field plate and the drain electrode are respectively connected with different potential ends of the external resistor which are connected in series. According to the device, the field plate can be subjected to variable multi-potential self-gradient matching along with the potential of the drain electrode; the dielectric layer breakdown reliability failure problem caused by a high electric field and the dielectric layer charge trapping problem caused by high electric field strength are solved.
Description
The application relates to a device with a variable potential multi-field plate structure and a preparation method thereof, which are divisional applications of an application patent application with the application date of 2024, 1-9, the application number of 2024100287467 and the application name of 'a device with a variable potential multi-field plate structure'.
Technical Field
The invention relates in particular to a device comprising a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) with a variable multi-potential field plate.
Background
GaN is a third generation semiconductor material with significant advantages over first generation Si, second generation GaAs. The AlGaN/GaN HEMT has large energy band gap, high peak saturated electron velocity, high concentration two-dimensional electron gas and higher electron mobility, so that the AlGaN/GaN HEMT is widely applied to the fields of RF (radio frequency), microwaves, power switch power supplies and the like.
AlGaN/GaN HEMTs belong to planar channel field effect transistors. When a high voltage is applied to the drain electrode, a large electric field spike is generated on one side of the edge of the gate electrode, which is close to the drain electrode, so that a local dielectric layer is degraded, and the breakdown is caused with time, thereby seriously affecting the reliability of the device. In order to solve the serious electric field peak problem, the prior art generally adopts a gate electrode to place one or more field plates, so that the peak height is restrained, and the reliability of the device is improved.
The electric connection of the field plates in industry mainly comprises a gate field plate connected with a gate electrode and a source field plate connected with a source electrode, and the implementation mode mainly comprises a multi-step structure or an inclined structure. In the existing schemes, the capacitance is gradually reduced by gradually increasing the distance between the field plate and the two-dimensional electron gas, so that the turn-off voltage is gradually increased under the condition that the total charge quantity is unchanged, and finally, the electric field gradient is formed.
For example, the technical scheme disclosed in the chinese patent publication No. CN1938859B, entitled wide bandgap transistor device with field plate, is that the field plate structure commonly used in the industry at present forms field plates with multiple heights through multiple dielectric layers, and mainly has the following problems: 1. in order to form the gradient field plate, 2-5 steps are added, and the process is complex; 2. the dielectric layer bears high electric field intensity, which is easy to cause the reliability failure of the device; 3. the electric field intensity is high, which is easy to cause the charge trapping of the dielectric layer and the rise of the dynamic resistance; 4. because the electric potential of the field plate is fixed, the voltage of the drain terminal is above a certain value, the electric field intensity under the field plate is not changed any more, and only the electric field intensity between the tail end of the field plate and the drain electrode is increased along with the increase of the voltage of the drain terminal, so that the high voltage resistant range is limited.
Another example is chinese patent publication No. CN104332498B, entitled oblique field plate power device and method for manufacturing the same, in which the formation mode of the field plate is changed by tilting the field plate. The electric field distribution is optimized, the complex problem of the preparation process of the multi-field plate is solved, and the main problems are that: 1. the dielectric layer bears high electric field intensity, which is easy to cause the reliability failure of the device; 2. the electric field intensity causes the dielectric layer to capture charges so as to increase the dynamic resistance; 3. forming a slow inclination angle, the process is difficult to realize and has poor repeatability; 4. because the electric potential of the field plate is fixed, the voltage of the drain terminal is above a certain value, the electric field intensity under the field plate is not changed any more, and only the electric field intensity between the tail end of the field plate and the drain electrode is increased along with the increase of the voltage of the drain terminal, so that the high voltage resistant range is limited.
It can be seen that the introduction of the planar channel structure and the multi-field plate of the existing AlGaN/GaN HEMT causes a number of problems: multiple field plates are required to suppress voltage spikes in order for the device to withstand high voltages. The field plates adopted in the industry at present are a gate field plate and a source field plate, but because the field plate potential is equal to the gate potential or the source potential, a large potential difference is formed between the field plate and two-dimensional electron gas below the field plate, and most of reasons for device failure are that the dielectric layer is mainly subjected to high electric field intensity, so that the reliability of the device is easy to fail; meanwhile, the high electric field intensity causes the dielectric layer to capture charges so as to increase the dynamic resistance; in addition, the potential of the field plate is fixed, so that when the voltage of the drain terminal is above a certain value, the electric field intensity under the field plate is not changed any more, and only the electric field intensity between the tail end of the field plate and the drain electrode is increased along with the increase of the voltage of the drain terminal, so that the high voltage resistant range is limited. Therefore, the preferred implementation of the field plate is a key issue to be addressed by AlGaN/GaN HEMTs.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of this, it is an object of the present invention to overcome the drawbacks of the prior art by providing an improved device structure that forms a field plate structure containing a variable multi-potential by providing a resistor.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme:
The device comprises a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a plurality of resistors, a plurality of field plates, a substrate, a laminated structure and a dielectric layer, wherein the substrate, the laminated structure and the dielectric layer are sequentially arranged from bottom to top; the plurality of field plates comprise a first field plate and a residual field plate, and the first field plate is connected with the gate electrode; and each of the residual field plates and the drain electrodes is respectively connected with a resistance electrode, and the residual resistance electrode is connected with the source electrode or the gate electrode. Namely, an important structural feature of the invention is that a plurality of residual field plates are connected between a gate electrode and a drain electrode or between a source electrode and a drain electrode through resistors connected in series and resistor electrodes, so that the field plates can automatically match gradually-changed voltages according to the resistance values.
According to some preferred embodiments of the invention, a plurality of said field plates are located at the same layer level. Preferably, a plurality of the field plates are located above the dielectric layer.
According to some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the stacked structure includes a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, a channel layer, and a barrier layer sequentially disposed from bottom to top, and the resistive electrode, the drain electrode, and the source electrode are disposed in the barrier layer and the dielectric layer.
The resistor is prepared by the following method: the resistor is prepared by the following method: and carrying out patterning treatment on the barrier layer, and implanting ion materials to form an electric isolation region, wherein a conductive region for forming the resistor is reserved outside the electric isolation region, and the electric isolation region is positioned between adjacent resistors and between the resistor and an unconnected electrode.
According to some preferred embodiments of the invention, each conductive region corresponding to the resistor has a width of 50-2000 nm and a length of 1-1 e6um; the resistance value of each resistor is 1e 2-5 e8 omega.
According to some preferred embodiments of the invention, the number of field plates is 3-11, the number of resistors is 3-11, and the number of resistor electrodes is 4-12. In some embodiments, the number of field plates is 3-4, the number of resistors is 3-4, and the number of resistive electrodes is 4-5.
According to some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the number of the remaining field plates is two, including a second field plate and a third field plate, the number of the resistive electrodes is four, the gate electrode or the first field plate, the second field plate, the third field plate, and the drain electrode are respectively connected with one resistive electrode, and a resistor is disposed between adjacent resistive electrodes.
According to some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the number of the remaining field plates is two, including a second field plate and a third field plate, the number of the resistive electrodes is four, the source electrode, the second field plate, the third field plate and the drain electrode are respectively connected with one resistive electrode, and a resistor is disposed between adjacent resistive electrodes.
According to some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the number of the remaining field plates is three, including a second field plate, a third field plate and a fourth field plate, the number of the resistive electrodes is five, and the gate electrode, the second field plate, the third field plate, the fourth field plate and the drain electrode are respectively connected with one resistive electrode, and a resistor is disposed between adjacent resistive electrodes.
According to some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the resistor is an external resistor disposed outside the device, and the gate electrode or the source electrode, the residual field plate, and the drain electrode are respectively connected with resistor electrodes of different potentials of the external resistor connected in series.
The resistor can be formed by reserving the corresponding conductive area after injecting the ion material, and can also be in the form of an external resistor. Only one resistor is connected to each residual field plate and each drain electrode, and one resistor is connected to the source electrode or the gate electrode, so that variable multi-potential self-gradient matching can be realized.
The invention also provides a preparation method of the device, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:
Performing nitride epitaxial growth on the substrate, and sequentially forming a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, a channel layer and a barrier layer, wherein the nucleation layer, the buffer layer, the channel layer and the barrier layer form the laminated structure;
patterning is carried out on the barrier layer, ion materials are injected into the barrier layer to form an electric isolation region, and a conductive region for forming the resistor is reserved outside the electric isolation region;
Etching to form a source electrode hole, a drain electrode hole and a plurality of resistance electrode holes on the barrier layer;
Filling metal in the source electrode hole and the drain electrode hole to respectively form a source electrode and a drain electrode, and annealing to form ohmic contact; simultaneously filling a plurality of resistance electrodes in the resistance electrode holes;
Depositing a dielectric layer above the barrier layer and etching a gate electrode hole;
Filling metal on the dielectric layer and etching redundant metal to form a gate electrode and a plurality of field plates; the device is obtained.
The principle of the invention is as follows: the invention adopts a plurality of discrete metal field plates, comprising a first field plate and a plurality of residual field plates which are connected with a gate electrode, and simultaneously introduces resistors with the same number as the field plates, wherein adjacent resistors are connected in series through resistor electrodes, each residual field plate and each drain electrode are respectively connected with one resistor electrode, and the residual resistor electrode is connected with a source electrode or the gate electrode.
The D-MODE GaN HEMT device is assumed, the gate is just turned off when the negative pressure V0 is adopted, and meanwhile, the scheme that multiple field plates are all arranged on the same dielectric layer is assumed. When the negative pressure Vg1 (smaller than V0) is supplied to the gate terminal for turn-off, the source terminal is 0V, and the drain terminal is raised by the voltage Vd. Since the plurality of remaining field plates are connected between the gate electrode and the drain electrode (or between the source electrode and the drain electrode) through resistors connected in series, the plurality of field plates automatically match the gradual voltage according to the resistance value, the voltage is between Vg1 (or 0V) and Vd, and the gate electrode (the first field plate and the gate electrode are at equal potential), the second field plate, the third field plate and more field plates and the drain electrode possibly included form a relatively uniform and increased potential gradient. Since the gate has been turned off at this time, i.e. the potential under the gate is 0V, the two-dimensional electron gas under the gate is depleted. At this time, the potential below the first field plate needs to be raised, and because the distance between the first field plate and the two-dimensional electron gas is larger than the distance between the gate electrode and the two-dimensional electron gas, that is, the capacitance formed by the first field plate and the two-dimensional electron gas below is smaller, the same charge amount as the gate capacitance needs to be depleted by higher voltage, the voltage increase is positively related to the thickness of the dielectric layer, and finally, the potential below the first field plate is stabilized at a certain voltage value V1 higher than 0V.
Further, the potential below the second field plate is raised, the capacitance formed by the second field plate and the two-dimensional electron gas below is not different from the first field plate in height, the potential difference of the upper electrode and the lower electrode when the charges are consumed is identical to V1, but the second field plate is divided into a voltage by the resistor, the two-dimensional electron gas below is consumed, the voltage is equal to the potential +V1 of the second field plate, and similarly, the potential below the third field plate is stabilized at the potential +V1 of the third field plate. If more field plates are designed, more gradient potentials are generated below the field plates, so that the electric field is uniformly distributed.
In addition, when the drain voltage Vd increases or decreases, the respective electric potentials of the second field plate, the third field plate and possibly more field plates also increase or decrease correspondingly, which further causes uniform adjustment of electric field distribution under the field plates, thereby better matching high voltage and improving the voltage-withstanding capability of the device.
When the power Vg2 (more than V0 and often 0V in practical application) is actively supplied to the gate end, namely the gate is opened, the two-dimensional electron gas under the gate is recovered to be conducted, at the moment, the electric potential under the first field plate is pulled down, the two-dimensional electron gas under the first field plate is recovered to be conducted, and likewise, the two-dimensional electron gas under the second field plate and the third field plate is recovered to be conducted, and the whole device is conducted. At this time, the drain electrode voltage Vd is pulled down to vd1=ids_rds_on, which is usually very low, and at the same time, the voltage division is changed due to the second field plate, the third field plate and possibly more field plates, and the voltage is between Vg1 (or 0V) and Vd1, which is very low. At this time, the whole device has no high-voltage part, and is safely conducted at low voltage. Through the design and the principle, the device realizes switching and realizes variable multi-potential self-gradient matching.
Due to the adoption of the technical scheme, compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages: the device with the variable-potential multi-field plate structure can realize the variable multi-potential self-gradient matching of the field plate along with the potential of the drain electrode; the number of the field plates is far more than that of the traditional structure through the multi-potential field plates, so that the process is greatly simplified, and the voltage endurance capacity of the device is further improved through electric field distribution; the potential difference between the field plate and the two-dimensional electron gas below is effectively controlled, the problems that the dielectric layer breaks down and the reliability fails due to a high electric field and charges are trapped in the dielectric layer due to high electric field strength are solved, and the dynamic resistance is reduced; in addition, the electric field distribution is automatically matched with the leakage voltage, so that the device can bear higher voltage.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention after forming a stacked structure;
FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention when injected during the method of manufacturing the device;
FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention after forming electrode holes;
FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention after forming electrodes;
FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention after forming a dielectric layer;
fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention after forming a gate electrode hole;
fig. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention after forming a gate electrode and a field plate;
FIG. 8 is a schematic top view of a device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a schematic top view of a device according to a second preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 10 is a schematic top view of a device in accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a schematic top view of a device according to a fourth preferred embodiment of the present invention;
In the attached drawings, 1, a substrate; 2. a laminated structure; 20. a nucleation layer; 21. a buffer layer; 22. a channel layer; 23. a barrier layer; 231. a photoresist; 232. a drain electrode hole; 233. a source electrode hole; 234. a resistive electrode hole; 3. a drain electrode; 4. a source electrode; 5. a resistor; 51. a resistive electrode; 6. a dielectric layer; 61. a gate electrode hole; 7. a gate electrode; 71. a first field plate; 72. a second field plate; 73. a third field plate; 74. a fourth field plate; 8. an external resistor; 9. and (5) packaging and wire bonding.
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In order to make the technical solution of the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solution of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without making any inventive effort, shall fall within the scope of the present invention.
The device with the variable-potential multi-field plate structure comprises a drain electrode 3, a source electrode 4, a gate electrode 7, a plurality of resistors 5, a plurality of field plates, a substrate 1, a laminated structure 2 and a dielectric layer 6 which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, wherein the laminated structure 2 comprises a nucleation layer 20, a buffer layer 21, a channel layer 22 and a barrier layer 23 which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, the resistor electrode 51, the drain electrode 3 and the source electrode 4 are positioned in the barrier layer 23 and the dielectric layer 6, and the gate electrode 7 is positioned in the dielectric layer 6. A plurality of field plates are located above the dielectric layer 6, preferably at the same level. The plurality of field plates includes a first field plate 71 and a remaining field plate, the first field plate 71 being connected to the gate electrode 7, and the remaining field plate being not connected to the gate electrode 7, the remaining field plate being connected between the source electrode 4 and the drain electrode 3 or between the gate electrode 7 and the drain electrode 3 through the resistor 5 and the resistor electrode 51.
The width of each resistor 5 is 50-2000 nm, the length is 1-1 e6um, and the resistance is 1e 2-5 e8 omega. The number of the resistors 5 is equal to the number of the field plates, the number of the field plates is 3-11, the number of the resistors 5 is 3-11, and the number of the resistor electrodes 51 is 4-12. Preferably, the number of field plates is 3-4, the number of resistors 5 is 3-4, and the number of resistor electrodes 51 is 4-5.
Adjacent resistors 5 are connected in series by means of resistor electrodes 51, and each of the remaining field plates (i.e. the field plates other than the first field plate 71) and the drain electrode 3 is connected with one resistor electrode 51, respectively, the remaining one resistor electrode 51 being connected with the source electrode 4 or the gate electrode 7. That is, the device of the present invention realizes that a plurality of field plates automatically match the gradation voltage according to the resistance value by connecting a plurality of field plates between the gate electrode 7 and the drain electrode 3 or between the source electrode 4 and the drain electrode 3 through the resistor 5 and the resistor electrode 51 connected in series.
Example 1 device Structure
As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the device with a variable-potential multi-field plate structure in this embodiment includes a drain electrode 3, a source electrode 4, a gate electrode 7, a plurality of resistors 5, a plurality of field plates, and a substrate 1, a stacked structure 2, and a dielectric layer 6 sequentially disposed from bottom to top, the stacked structure 2 includes a nucleation layer 20, a buffer layer 21, a channel layer 22, and a barrier layer 23 sequentially disposed from bottom to top, the resistor electrode 51, the drain electrode 3, and the source electrode 4 are disposed in the barrier layer 23 and the dielectric layer 6, and the gate electrode 7 is disposed in the dielectric layer 6. The field plates are located at the same level and are all located above the dielectric layer 6. The number of resistors 5 is equal to the number of field plates, adjacent resistors 5 being connected in series by resistive electrodes 51.
In this embodiment, three field plates, three resistors 5 and four resistor electrodes 51 are included, and the three resistors 5 are connected in series by the four resistor electrodes 51. The three field plates comprise a first field plate 71, a second field plate 72 and a third field plate 73, the first field plate 71 being connected to the gate electrode 7. The gate electrode 7 or the first field plate 71, the second field plate 72, the third field plate 73 and the drain electrode in this embodiment are respectively connected with a resistor electrode 51, that is, a resistor 5 is connected between the gate electrode 7 and the second field plate 72, between the second field plate 72 and the third field plate 73, and between the third field plate 73 and the drain electrode 3, so as to realize automatic field plate bias voltage adjustment through the preset resistor 5 and the voltage actually applied by the gate electrode and the drain electrode.
Example 2 device Structure
As shown in fig. 7 and 9, the device with a variable potential multi-field plate structure in this embodiment is different from embodiment 1 in that: the source electrode 4 in this embodiment is connected to one resistive electrode 51, whereas the first field plate 71 or the gate electrode 7 is not connected to the resistive electrode 51. Namely, in the present embodiment, a resistor 5 is connected between the source electrode 4 and the second field plate 72, between the second field plate 72 and the third field plate 73, and between the third field plate 73 and the drain electrode 3, so as to realize automatic field plate bias voltage adjustment through the preset resistor 5 and the actual applied voltages of the source electrode and the drain electrode.
Example 3 device Structure
As shown in fig. 7 and 10, the device with a variable potential multi-field plate structure in this embodiment is different from embodiment 1 in that: in this embodiment, a field plate is added, that is, in this embodiment, four field plates, four resistors 5 and five resistor electrodes 51 are included, and four resistors 5 are connected in series through five resistor electrodes 51. The four field plates include a first field plate 71, a second field plate 72, a third field plate 73 and a fourth field plate 74, the first field plate 71 being connected to the gate electrode 7. The gate electrode 7 or the first field plate 71, the second field plate 72, the third field plate 73, the fourth field plate 74 and the drain electrode 3 in this embodiment are respectively connected with a resistor electrode 51, that is, a resistor 5 is respectively connected between the gate electrode 7 and the second field plate 72, between the second field plate 72 and the third field plate 73, between the third field plate 73 and the fourth field plate 74, and between the fourth field plate 74 and the drain electrode 3, so as to realize automatic field plate bias voltage adjustment through the preset resistor 5 and the voltage actually applied by the drain electrode terminal. And the distribution of the electric field is more uniform due to the gate electrode 7 and the four field plates, so that the device reliability is higher.
Example 4 device Structure
As shown in fig. 7 and 11, the device with a variable potential multi-field plate structure in this embodiment is different from embodiment 1 in that: in the embodiment, the resistor 5 is not formed on the chip through two-dimensional electron gas, but is connected into 3 external resistors 8 through a packaging wire 9. The gate electrode 7 or the first field plate 71, the second field plate 72, the third field plate 73 and the drain electrode 3 are respectively connected with four different potential ends of the 3 series external resistors 8, so that the automatic bias voltage adjustment of the field plates is realized through the preset external resistors 8 and the voltages actually applied by the gate electrode and the drain electrode.
Example 5 preparation method
The present embodiment provides a method for preparing the device structure in the above embodiment 1, specifically including the following steps:
Step one, forming a laminated structure 2
As shown in fig. 1, nitride epitaxial growth is performed on a substrate 1, and a nucleation layer 20, a buffer layer 21, a channel layer 22, and a barrier layer 23 are sequentially formed, and the materials include a group III nitride material such as GaN, alGaN, alN, alGaNInN. The nucleation layer 20, the buffer layer 21, the channel layer 22 and the barrier layer 23 constitute a stacked structure 2, thereby constituting a complete semiconductor epitaxial layer structure, and being capable of forming a high-concentration two-dimensional electron gas at the heterojunction interface between the channel layer 22 and the barrier layer 23, generating a conductive channel.
The substrate 1 is one or more combinations selected from silicon, gallium nitride, aluminum gallium nitride, indium gallium nitride, aluminum indium gallium nitride, gallium arsenide, silicon carbide, diamond, sapphire, germanium, or any other material capable of growing group III nitride materials.
Step two, forming a resistor 5 structure
As shown in fig. 2, a photoresist coating, a patterned exposure, a developing process, and an implantation process are performed on the epitaxial layer barrier layer 23, and the implanted material includes N, O, he plasma. The photoresist 231 is present at a location where ions cannot penetrate the photoresist 231 so as not to damage the epitaxial layer structure. And the high-energy ions penetrate through and embed into the epitaxial layer structure in the region developed by the photoresist 231, thereby disturbing the arrangement method of atoms on the crystal lattice of the material to form a high-resistance region, and finally forming a patterned electrical isolation region on the surface of the chip. In other embodiments, isolation is achieved as well as mesa isolation, i.e., the conductive via is blocked by a mesa etch to form an isolation trench. The electrically isolated regions are located between adjacent resistors and between the resistors and unconnected electrodes.
The isolation is formed by injecting and destroying the structure of the two-dimensional electron gas, the active region (conductive region) and the passive region (isolation region) are formed, the main structure of the device is processed in the active region, and the passive region is formed around the edge of the device to form electrical isolation.
In this embodiment, the 3-11 independent elongated active regions (conductive regions) are reserved, the width is 50-2000 nm, the length is 1-1 e6um, and the sizes of the active regions corresponding to the resistors are designed according to the required resistance values, so that the 3-11 resistor 5 structure is formed, and the resistance value of each resistor 5 is 1e 2-5 e8 Ω. The photoresist 231 is then removed.
Step three, forming an electrode
On the epitaxial layer barrier layer 23, a source electrode hole 233, a drain electrode hole 232, and a plurality of resistive electrode holes 234 are formed by patterning etching, as shown in fig. 3. And filling metal in the source electrode hole 233, the drain electrode hole 232 and the resistor electrode hole 234, wherein the metal comprises one or more of Ti, al, tiN, au, alCu, alSiCu, the filling modes comprise injection, sputtering and the like, and annealing to form ohmic contacts, so as to respectively form a source electrode 4, a drain electrode 3 and a resistor electrode 51, as shown in fig. 4.
Step four, forming a dielectric layer 6 and a field plate
A dielectric layer 6, shown in fig. 5, is formed by depositing one or more combinations of SiN, siO 2、SiON、Al2O3 over the barrier layer 23 and etching a gate electrode hole 61, shown in fig. 6. The dielectric layer 6 is filled with a metal, including one or more combinations of Ti, al, tiN, au, alCu, alSiCu, by implantation, sputtering, or the like. And etching off the redundant metal through patterning treatment to form a gate electrode 7 and a plurality of field plates, thereby obtaining a device structure, as shown in fig. 7.
The gate electrode 7 or the first field plate 71, the second field plate 72, the third field plate 73 and the drain electrode 3 are respectively connected with the 4 resistor electrodes 51, so that the field plate bias voltage can be automatically adjusted through the preset resistor 5 and the voltage actually applied by the gate terminal and the drain terminal.
The device with the multi-potential field plate structure adopts the structure that a plurality of residual field plates are connected between a gate electrode and a drain electrode or between a source electrode and a drain electrode through resistors connected in series and resistor electrodes, so that the field plates can be automatically matched with gradual voltage according to the resistance. The field plate is of a self-adaptive multi-potential structure, so that the problem that the field plate and the two-dimensional electron gas below the field plate have high electric field strength is solved, and meanwhile, the process for forming the field plate is simpler. According to the device structure, the electric field gradient field plates are formed on the same layer, so that the process is reduced by 2-5 steps compared with the traditional field plate process, the process is simplified, the number of the field plates is far more than that of the traditional structure, and the voltage endurance capability of the device is further improved by electric field distribution; the field plates and the two-dimensional electron gas below the field plates bear lower electric field intensity, and the reliability of the device is improved; the field plates and the two-dimensional electron gas below the field plates bear lower electric field intensity, the phenomenon of charge trapping of the dielectric layer is improved, and the dynamic resistance is reduced; in addition, the electric field distribution is automatically matched with the leakage voltage, so that the device can bear higher voltage.
The above embodiments of the present invention are only for illustrating the technical concept and features of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention to those skilled in the art to understand the present invention and implement the same. All equivalent changes or modifications made in accordance with the spirit of the present invention should be construed to be included in the scope of the present invention.
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1. The device comprises a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a plurality of resistors and a plurality of field plates, wherein the number of the resistors is equal to that of the field plates, the field plates comprise first field plates and residual field plates, the first field plates are connected with the gate electrode, and the residual field plates are the rest; the residual field plate is connected between the source electrode and the drain electrode or between the gate electrode and the drain electrode through a resistor;
the resistor is an external resistor, and the gate electrode or the source electrode, the residual field plate and the drain electrode are respectively connected with different potential ends of the external resistor which are connected in series.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein the external resistor is connected to the electrode or field plate by package routing.
3. The device of claim 1, wherein each of the remaining field plates and drain electrodes is connected to a resistor, and wherein the source electrode or gate electrode is connected to a resistor.
4. A device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein adjacent resistors are connected in series by resistive electrodes; and each of the residual field plates and the drain electrodes is respectively connected with a resistance electrode, and the residual resistance electrode is connected with the source electrode or the gate electrode.
5. The device of claim 4, wherein the external resistor is connected to the resistor electrode by a package wire bond.
6. The device of claim 1, wherein the number of the remaining field plates is two, the number of the remaining field plates comprises a second field plate and a third field plate, the number of the resistance electrodes is four, and the gate electrode or the first field plate, the second field plate, the third field plate and the drain electrode are respectively connected with four different potential ends of the 3 series external resistors.
7. The device of claim 1, wherein a plurality of the field plates are located at the same layer level.
8. The device of claim 1 or 7, wherein the device comprises a substrate, a stacked structure and a dielectric layer arranged in sequence from bottom to top, and a plurality of field plates are all located above the dielectric layer.
9. The device of claim 8, wherein the stacked structure comprises a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, a channel layer, and a barrier layer disposed in that order from bottom to top.
10. The device of claim 1, wherein the number of field plates is 3-11, the number of resistors is 3-11, and the number of resistive electrodes is 4-12.
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