TY - GEN
T1 - Temperature and Stress Metrology of Ultra-Wide Bandgap β-Ga2O3 Thin Films
AU - Chatterjee, Bikramjit
AU - Leach, Jacob H.
AU - Dhar, Sarit
AU - Choi, Sukwon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/24
Y1 - 2018/7/24
N2 - The superior electronic properties of ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) β-gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) gives promise to developing power and radio frequency (RF) devices with improved size, weight, and power (SWaP), and efficiency over current state-of-the-art wide bandgap (WBG) devices based on SiC and GaN. However, self-heating is viewed as a major challenge that the β-Ga2O3 device technology will encounter. β-Ga2O3 devices are expected to handle higher power densities than WBG counterparts. However, the thermal conductivity of β-Ga2O3 is only on the order of 10-20 W/m-K, which is significantly lower than that for GaN or SiC. Therefore, large temperature gradients forming in β-Ga2O3 devices during operation can cause thermo-mechanical reliability issues. In this work, a micro-Raman metrology scheme was established to simultaneously measure the temperature rise and associated thermo-elastic stress induced in β-Ga2O3 thin films. To decouple the effect of temperature and stress, the proposed scheme utilizes multiple peaks in the β-Ga2O3 Raman spectrum. A 1 μm thick halide vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) β-Ga2O3 layer grown on a sapphire substrate and a 3D thermo-mechanical multi-physics model was utilized to establish the measurement technique. The developed method can be used to determine the stress and temperature in β-Ga2O3 epi-layers consisting future UWBG electronic devices.
AB - The superior electronic properties of ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) β-gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) gives promise to developing power and radio frequency (RF) devices with improved size, weight, and power (SWaP), and efficiency over current state-of-the-art wide bandgap (WBG) devices based on SiC and GaN. However, self-heating is viewed as a major challenge that the β-Ga2O3 device technology will encounter. β-Ga2O3 devices are expected to handle higher power densities than WBG counterparts. However, the thermal conductivity of β-Ga2O3 is only on the order of 10-20 W/m-K, which is significantly lower than that for GaN or SiC. Therefore, large temperature gradients forming in β-Ga2O3 devices during operation can cause thermo-mechanical reliability issues. In this work, a micro-Raman metrology scheme was established to simultaneously measure the temperature rise and associated thermo-elastic stress induced in β-Ga2O3 thin films. To decouple the effect of temperature and stress, the proposed scheme utilizes multiple peaks in the β-Ga2O3 Raman spectrum. A 1 μm thick halide vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) β-Ga2O3 layer grown on a sapphire substrate and a 3D thermo-mechanical multi-physics model was utilized to establish the measurement technique. The developed method can be used to determine the stress and temperature in β-Ga2O3 epi-layers consisting future UWBG electronic devices.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051091970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85051091970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419526
DO - 10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419526
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051091970
T3 - Proceedings of the 17th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2018
SP - 202
EP - 207
BT - Proceedings of the 17th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2018
Y2 - 29 May 2018 through 1 June 2018
ER -