High‐quality GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well and modulation‐doped heterostructures have been grown by low‐pressure organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) using trimethylamine alane (TMAA) as a new aluminum source. TMAA is an alternative to the conventional organometallic precursors and offers the advantage of substantially reduced oxygen and carbon incorporation in AlGaAs. Intense photoluminescence (PL) with narrow linewidths at 2 K was observed from multiple quantum well samples with well widths of 1.5–10 nm. Transmission electron microscopy of a fifty period superlattice (4 nm GaAs/44 nm Al0.18Ga0.82As) revealed abrupt interfaces and excellent well‐to‐well thickness uniformity. Selectively doped heterostructure transistors (SDHTs) fabricated on the modulation‐doped structures exhibited a maximum extrinsic transconductance of 339 mS/mm for a 1‐μm‐gate length at 300‐K, the highest reported for OMVPE grown devices. A unity current gain cutoff frequency, ft, of 16 GHz and a maximum frequency of oscillation, fmax, of 23 GHz were obtained for these SDHTs.
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14 October 1991
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October 14 1991
GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well and modulation‐doped heterostructures grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy using trimethylamine alane
W. S. Hobson;
W. S. Hobson
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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F. Ren;
F. Ren
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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M. Lamont Schnoes;
M. Lamont Schnoes
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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S. K. Sputz;
S. K. Sputz
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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T. D. Harris;
T. D. Harris
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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S. J. Pearton;
S. J. Pearton
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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C. R. Abernathy;
C. R. Abernathy
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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K. S. Jones
K. S. Jones
University of Florida, Department of Materials Science, 214A Rhines Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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Appl. Phys. Lett. 59, 1975–1977 (1991)
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Received:
June 10 1991
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July 29 1991
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W. S. Hobson, F. Ren, M. Lamont Schnoes, S. K. Sputz, T. D. Harris, S. J. Pearton, C. R. Abernathy, K. S. Jones; GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well and modulation‐doped heterostructures grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy using trimethylamine alane. Appl. Phys. Lett. 14 October 1991; 59 (16): 1975–1977. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.106154
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