Improved electrical properties of wafer-bonded p-GaAs/n-InP interfaces with sulfide passivation

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  • Keisuke Nakayama
  • Katsuaki Tanabe
  • Harry A. Atwater
  • Thomas J. Watson
چکیده

Sulfide-passivated GaAs and InP wafers were directly bonded to explore the efficiency of sulfide passivation on the bonded interfacial properties. We find that the bonded GaAs/InP interfaces after sulfide passivation contain sulfur atoms and a decreased amount of oxide species relative to the pairs bonded after conventional acid treatment; however, the residual sulfur atoms have no effect on the bonding strength. The electrical properties of the bonded p-GaAs /n-InP heterojunctions were studied for different acceptor concentrations in p-GaAs. A reduced interfacial trap state density enhances the tunnel current flow across the depletion layer in the sulfide-passivated case. A directly bonded tunnel diode with a heavily doped p-GaAs /n-InP heterojunction was achieved when the wafers were sulfide passivated and then bonded at temperatures as low as 300 °C. This sulfide-passivated tunnel diode can be used for fabrication of lattice-mismatched multijunction solar cells in which subcells are integrated via direct bonding. © 2008 American Institute of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.2912717

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تاریخ انتشار 2007