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- the present invention relates generally to methods of growing gallium nitride on silicon.
- Thin films of Group III nitride such as gallium nitride (GaN) are used in the production of efficient optoelectronic light emitters.
- GaN gallium nitride
- Growing the epitaxial layers of GaN on silicon as opposed to on sapphire offers considerable cost savings because of the economies of scale from the large production of silicon for the semiconductor industry.
- a large amount of equipment for the production of crystalline silicon has already been depreciated. That equipment can now be used in the production of light emitting diodes (LEDs).
- LEDs light emitting diodes
- GaN is not well suited for epitaxial growth directly on a silicon substrate. GaN epilayers often crack upon cooling to room temperature because even at growth temperatures above 1000° C. the lattice constant of GaN is much smaller than that of crystalline silicon. In addition, GaN has a much larger coefficient of thermal expansion than does silicon. So as the layers of GaN grown on silicon at high temperature cool to room temperature, the smaller lattice distance of the GaN crystals relative to the silicon crystals becomes even more pronounced. The GaN layers deposited directly on silicon are subjected to even more tensile stress as they cool and can even cause the underlying silicon substrate to bow.
- buffer layers between the silicon substrate and the epitaxial GaN layers in order to compensate for the differing lattice constants and thermal expansion coefficients of GaN and silicon.
- buffer layers of AlN, AlGaN and AlGaIN have been grown between the silicon substrate and the GaN layers.
- a method is sought for growing buffer layers on a silicon substrate that allows high quality epitaxial GaN layers with fewer structural defects to be grown over the buffer layers.
- a silicon wafer used in manufacturing crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) for light emitting diodes (LEDs) includes a silicon substrate, a buffer layer of aluminum nitride (AlN), a second buffer layer of aluminum gallium nitride (Al x Ga 1-x N), and an upper layer of GaN.
- the silicon wafer has a diameter of at least 200 millimeters and an Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface (as opposed to a Si(111)7 ⁇ 7 reconstructed surface).
- the AlN buffer layer overlies the Si(111) surface of the substrate and is between 205 to 250 nanometers thick.
- the second buffer layer of aluminum gallium nitride is disposed between the buffer layer of aluminum nitride and the upper layer of gallium nitride.
- the AlN buffer layer has a single polarity.
- the silicon and AlN are oriented as AlN ⁇ 0001> ⁇ Si ⁇ 111>. No amount of metallic aluminum is disposed between the silicon substrate and the AlN buffer layer. In addition, no layer of SiN x is present between the silicon substrate and the AlN buffer layer.
- a method of making an AlN buffer layer includes preflowing a first small amount of ammonia (NH 3 ) before flowing trimethylaluminum in order to form single polarity AlN.
- the crystallinity of the AlN buffer layer is influenced by the quality of the initial nucleation layer of AlN and the nature of the atomic bonding between the AlN and the silicon(111) surface. Because of the ammonia preflow step, the initial nucleation layer of AlN begins to grow with only nitrogen atoms bonded to the silicon(111) surface over the entire surface of the silicon wafer.
- a substrate of silicon Si is heated to a temperature above 950° C. in a reaction chamber of a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) device.
- hydrogen (H 2 ) is flowed through the chamber in an amount between 106 and 118 cubic centimeters of hydrogen per minute over each square centimeter of the surface of the silicon substrate.
- the temperature in the chamber during the flowing of hydrogen is above 1100° C.
- a first amount of ammonia is flowed through the reaction chamber while the hydrogen is still flowing through the chamber.
- the first amount of ammonia is less than 0.01% by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber.
- the first amount of ammonia does not exceed 0.006 cubic centimeters per minute over each square centimeter of the surface of the silicon substrate.
- the ammonia preflow step is performed for between thirty seconds to three minutes.
- the temperature in the chamber during the ammonia preflow step is between 1000° C. and 1050° C.
- trimethylaluminum Al 2 (CH 3 ) 5
- hydrogen and first amount of ammonia are still flowing through the chamber.
- the trimethyl-aluminum is flowed through the chamber for between ten to twenty minutes in an amount of about ninety micromoles per minute.
- a subsequent amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber while the trimethylaluminum is still flowing through the chamber.
- the subsequent amount of ammonia is greater than 0.002% by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber.
- the subsequent amount of ammonia flowed through the chamber was just under 5% of the total amount of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the growth of a single crystal GaN film on buffer layers over a silicon substrate.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for growing an initial nucleation layer of AlN on a silicon substrate.
- FIG. 3A shows a model of the crystal structure of silicon.
- FIG. 3B is a diagram of the silicon atoms along an Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface of silicon.
- FIG. 4 is a graph of gas flows of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum through a reaction chamber during the method of FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 5 shows a model of the crystal structure of wurtzite aluminum nitride.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram of the crystal structure of the aluminum hexagons in the C-plane of AlN superimposed over the crystal structure of silicon along the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram of the crystal structures of a silicon substrate and an AlN nucleation layer viewed perpendicular to the Si(111) surface.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the growth of a single crystal GaN film 10 on buffer layers over a silicon substrate 11 .
- a buffer layer of aluminum nitride (AlN) 12 is first grown on the silicon substrate 11 .
- higher buffer of layers of aluminum gallium nitride (Al x Ga 1-x N) 13 are grown over the AlN layer 12 .
- the GaN layer 10 is grown over the top layer of aluminum gallium nitride 13 .
- the GaN layer includes several sublayers.
- the buffer layer of AlN 12 is made up of a lower initial nucleation layer 14 and thicker upper layers 15 .
- GaN nitride (GaN) layer 10 There are several reasons for first growing buffer layers on a silicon substrate before the gallium nitride (GaN) layer 10 is grown.
- meltback etching of the silicon substrate 11 by gallium occurs if the gallium is allowed to react directly with the silicon substrate. The reaction between gallium and silicon results in poor crystal quality and morphology of the GaN layer 10 .
- SiN x can be formed as GaN is deposited on silicon, which leads to a 3-dimensional growth of GaN crystals instead of a 2-dimensional growth over the entire surface of the silicon substrate before the GaN layer thickens. Three-dimensional crystal growth leads to lower quality GaN layer than does 2-dimensional crystal growth.
- the lattice mismatch between GaN and crystalline silicon causes a large tensile strain on the GaN layer at the interface with the silicon.
- the lattice mismatch at room temperature between GaN and the hexagonal surface orientation of silicon Si(111) is about 16.9%.
- the in-plane thermal expansion coefficients of GaN on Si(111) vary widely (5.59 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 6 K ⁇ 1 for GaN and 2.6 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 6 K ⁇ 1 for Si). The difference in thermal expansion coefficients can result in cracking of the GaN layer upon cooling from the growth temperature to room temperature.
- buffer layers are typically deposited between the silicon and the GaN.
- a nucleation layer of AlN 12 can first be grown on the silicon substrate 11 , followed by the additional buffer layers 13 of aluminum gallium nitride (Al x Ga 1-x N).
- AlN nucleation layer and the other buffer layers solve the four problems described above.
- the AlN buffer layer 12 does not allow gallium to come into contact with the silicon substrate 11 .
- GaN is not grown directly on the silicon substrate, so the formation of amorphous SiN x can be prevented on the surface of the silicon, which would otherwise degrade the crystal formation of the GaN.
- the lattice mismatch between GaN and Si(111) is compensated by the smaller lattice constant of AlN that applies compressive stress to the GaN to counteract the tensile stress of GaN from the underlying Si(111).
- the smaller lattice constant of AlN compensates for the greater proportionate shrinking of the GaN crystal compared to the silicon crystal as both cool from the growth temperature to room temperature.
- the quality of the GaN layer and other epitaxial layers is also dependent on the quality of the AlN nucleation layer 12 . Consequently, simply growing a layer of AlN to solve the aforementioned four problems that result from growing GaN directly on silicon will not necessarily result in high-quality GaN.
- the properties of the aluminum nitride nucleation layer 12 are critical in influencing the properties of the higher epitaxial layers.
- the AlN layer 12 acts as a crystallographic template for the higher buffer layers and ultimately for the GaN layer 10 .
- the properties of the AlN layer 12 are determined in large part by the conditions under which the growth of the AlN is initiated and by how the silicon substrate 11 is treated prior to growth of the AlN.
- the method grows a single polarity buffer layer of AlN having a low dislocation density.
- the subsequent buffer layers grown over the AlN buffer layer retain the high quality crystalline form and enable higher quality GaN and other epitaxial layers to be grown over the buffer layers.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method 16 for growing a high-quality AlN nucleation layer on a silicon substrate.
- a substrate of silicon (Si) is heated to a temperature above 950° C. in a chamber.
- the substrate was heated to a temperature of 1140° C. in the reaction chamber of a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system (also called a metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy system).
- MOCVD metal-organic chemical vapor deposition
- the substrate was in the form of three 8-inch silicon wafers cut along the (111) plane. The three wafers were placed on a wafer receptacle having a diameter of 465 millimeters.
- FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating the crystal structure 23 of silicon.
- the (111) plane along which the three silicon wafers are cleaved is the plane that intersects the silicon atoms A, C and F in FIG. 3A .
- the silicon atoms A, F and 24 define the (010) plane, in which the silicon atoms form a square format.
- the distance between silicon atoms at adjacent corners of the squares of the identical (100), (010) and (001) planes is 5.431 angstroms. There is a shorter distance, however, between adjacent silicon atoms of the hexagonal format of the (111) plane. For example, the distance between atoms A and B in the (111) plane is 3.840 angstroms.
- FIG. 3B illustrates the atoms A-F of FIG. A in which the (111) plane coincides with the plane of the page.
- the surface of the three silicon wafers after first step 17 has a Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 structure 25 as shown in FIG. 3B as opposed to the dimer-adatom-stacking (DAS) fault structure of the Si(111)7 ⁇ 7 reconstruction.
- DAS dimer-adatom-stacking
- the more-stable, faceted Si(111)7 ⁇ 7 surface structure breaks down to the regular Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 hexagonal structure 25 as the silicon substrates are heated above about 850° C.
- step 18 hydrogen is flowed through the chamber in order to remove SiO 2 from the wafers and generally to clean the surface of the silicon substrate. Between 106 and 118 cubic centimeters of hydrogen per minute flow over each square centimeter of the surface of the substrate. In one aspect, 180-200 liters of hydrogen per minute was flowed through the chamber. The silicon substrate was baked in the hydrogen flow at 1140° C. for about fifteen minutes to remove the native oxide. Then, the temperature in the chamber was lowered to about 1020° C.
- a first amount of ammonia (NH3) is flowed through the chamber while the hydrogen is still flowing through the chamber.
- the first amount of ammonia is less than 0.01% of by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber.
- the first amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber for between thirty seconds to three minutes. In one aspect, less than ten cubic centimeters of ammonia per minute was flowed over the 465-mm wafer receptacle. Thus, less than 0.00588 cubic centimeters per minute of ammonia flowed over each square centimeter of the surface of the silicon substrate.
- the first amount of ammonia is insufficient to form a layer of SIN x over the surface of the silicon substrate.
- the first amount of ammonia is, however, sufficient to form a small number of Si—N bonds on the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface.
- step 20 trimethylaluminum (Al 2 (CH 3 ) 6 ) is flowed through the chamber while the hydrogen is still flowing through the chamber.
- the trimethylaluminum flows through the chamber in an amount of about ninety micromoles per minute. In one aspect, ninety micromoles per minute of trimethylaluminum flowed through the chamber for between ten to twenty minutes.
- a subsequent amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber while the trimethylaluminum is still flowing through the chamber.
- the subsequent amount of ammonia is greater than 0.002% by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber.
- the subsequent amount of ammonia flowed through the chamber was just under 5% of the total amount of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum.
- an initial nucleation layer 14 of aluminum nitride (AlN) grew to a thickness of between 25-50 nanometers.
- the crystallinity of the AlN buffer layer 12 is related to the quality of the initial nucleation layer 14 and the nature of the atomic bonding between the silicon(111) surface and the AlN. Because of the ammonia preflow in step 19 , the initial nucleation layer 14 begins to grow with only nitrogen atoms bonded to the silicon(111) surface over the entire surface of the 8-inch wafers.
- a step 22 the flow of trimethylaluminum is increased to about 180 micromoles per minute, and the temperature in the chamber is increased to about 1120° C.
- the buffer layer of AlN is grown an additional 180-200 nanometers to a total thickness of 205-250 nanometers under the increased flow of trimethylaluminum.
- FIG. 4 is a graph that represents the flows of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum through the reaction chamber during the cleaning, preflow, initial growth and thicker growth stages of the formation of the AlN buffer layer.
- the additional 180-200 nanometers of AlN is grown in multiple stages of higher trimethylaluminum concentration as opposed to in one step.
- the initial nucleation layer 14 of AlN first starts to form when the trimethylaluminum starts flowing through the chamber in step 20 and before the subsequent amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber in step 21 . Consequently, a very small amount of nitrogen is present on the Si( 111 )1 ⁇ 1 surface of the silicon substrate 11 before the aluminum from the trimethylaluminum comes into contact with the substrate surface.
- the first seed crystals of AlN are formed, the aluminum atoms form bonds to the nitrogen atoms that are present on the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface as opposed to directly with silicon atoms on the substrate surface.
- the nitrogen from the ammonia preflow step ensures that the polarity of the alternating layers of aluminum and nitrogen in the AlN crystals that are formed across the entire silicon wafer will have a nitrogen layer facing the silicon substrate and an aluminum layer on top.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the crystal structure 26 of wurtzite aluminum nitride (AlN).
- AlN wurtzite aluminum nitride
- the smaller spheres represent aluminum atoms 27
- the larger spheres represent nitrogen atoms 28 .
- the C-plane of the AlN crystal intersects all six aluminum atoms that form a hexagon on the top surface of the crystal.
- the distance between adjacent aluminum atoms around the hexagon in the C-plane is 3.112 angstroms.
- the distance between adjacent nitrogen atoms around the middle hexagon is therefore also 3.112 angstroms.
- the hexagons of nitrogen and aluminum along the C-plane of AlN approximately match the hexagonal format of silicon atoms on the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface of the silicon substrate.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram of the crystal structure of the aluminum hexagons in the C-plane of AlN superimposed over the crystal structure of the silicon substrate on the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface. Because the distance between atoms around the silicon hexagon is 3.840 angstroms and the distance between the atoms around the hexagons of AlN is 3.112 angstroms, the lattice distance of a silicon cell unit is 6.652 angstroms and the lattice distance of an AlN cell unit is 5.390 angstroms. Thus, there is a 23.4% lattice mismatch. However, the width of five AlN cell units (26.95 angstroms) approximately matches the width of four silicon cell units (26.61 angstroms), as illustrated in FIG. 6 . Every fifth AlN cell unit can bond well to every fourth silicon cell unit.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram of the crystal structures of the silicon substrate and AlN viewed perpendicular to the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface and the C-plane of AlN.
- FIG. 7 illustrates how each fifth cell unit of the AlN crystal approximately matches each fourth cell unit on the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface.
- the regular mismatch between surface structures of AlN and silicon allows a crystal of AlN to be grown with a low dislocation density.
- the dislocation density of the AlN buffer layer is considerably higher, however, if not all islands of AlN crystals that begin to form on the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface have the same polarity. If some islands of AlN crystals form with nitrogen atoms bonded to the silicon while other islands of AlN crystals form with aluminum atoms bonded to the silicon, then discontinuities and stacking faults will form where the islands of crystals having opposite polarity grow together.
- FIG. 7 shows that the initial nucleation layer of AlN formed using method 16 has only nitrogen atoms bonded to the Si(111)1 ⁇ 1 surface. Across the entire substrate wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the aluminum nitride are present in the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride. Because the initial nucleation layer of AlN formed using method 16 has a single polarity, it was possible to grow a GaN layer above the nucleation layer that had a dislocation density of less that 2 ⁇ 10 9 cm ⁇ 2 .
- Some prior methods of growing an AlN buffer layer begin by depositing a metallic Al layer on the surface of the silicon substrate before the AlN is grown in order to prevent the formation of amorphous SiN x .
- the presence of aluminum atoms on surface of the silicon substrate probably causes at least some of the islands of AlN crystals to form with aluminum as the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride.
- these prior art methods do not prevent at least some nitrogen atoms from bonding to the silicon substrate (not necessarily as amorphous SiN x ), some islands of AlN crystals form with nitrogen as the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride, and the resulting AlN layer has mixed polarity.
- Method 16 allows a single polarity material to be grown.
- method 16 can be used to manufacture a wafer of silicon substrate over which an AlN buffer layer, AlGaN layers and finally an upper GaN layer are grown.
- the silicon substrate has an Si(111) surface, which converts from a 7 ⁇ 7 structure to a 1 ⁇ 1 structure when the silicon is heated above about 850° C.
- the AlN buffer layer is a means for compensating for the lattice mismatch between the GaN and the Si(111) surface of the silicon substrate so as to enable the upper GaN layer to grow under reduced stress.
- the AlGaN on top of the AlN buffer layer is a better lattice match for GaN than in silicon.
- the silicon substrate is a wafer with a diameter of at least 200 millimeters, such as an 8-inch wafer.
- the AlN buffer layer overlies the Si(111) surface of the substrate and is oriented as AlN ⁇ 0001> ⁇ Si ⁇ 111>.
- the upper layer of GaN is grown on the AlGaN layers over the AlN buffer layer. Across the entire wafer substantially no aluminum atoms of the aluminum nitride are present in a bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride, and across the entire wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the aluminum nitride are present in the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride. Thus, across the entire wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the AlN buffer layer form bonds to the Si(111) surface. There is neither metallic aluminum nor any layer of SiN x present between the silicon substrate and the AlN buffer layer.
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- The present invention relates generally to methods of growing gallium nitride on silicon.
- Thin films of Group III nitride, such as gallium nitride (GaN), are used in the production of efficient optoelectronic light emitters. Conventionally, GaN has been grown directly on sapphire substrates (Al2O3). The GaN is grown in thin layers as opposed to in a single three-dimensional growth mode in order to achieve a high quality crystalline structure of the epitaxial growth. Growing the epitaxial layers of GaN on silicon as opposed to on sapphire offers considerable cost savings because of the economies of scale from the large production of silicon for the semiconductor industry. A large amount of equipment for the production of crystalline silicon has already been depreciated. That equipment can now be used in the production of light emitting diodes (LEDs).
- Current attempts to grow high quality epitaxial layers of GaN on silicon substrates, however, have not been entirely successful. Because of the great difference between the lattice constants and thermal expansion coefficients of GaN and silicon, GaN is not well suited for epitaxial growth directly on a silicon substrate. GaN epilayers often crack upon cooling to room temperature because even at growth temperatures above 1000° C. the lattice constant of GaN is much smaller than that of crystalline silicon. In addition, GaN has a much larger coefficient of thermal expansion than does silicon. So as the layers of GaN grown on silicon at high temperature cool to room temperature, the smaller lattice distance of the GaN crystals relative to the silicon crystals becomes even more pronounced. The GaN layers deposited directly on silicon are subjected to even more tensile stress as they cool and can even cause the underlying silicon substrate to bow.
- Consequently, attempts have been made to grow buffer layers between the silicon substrate and the epitaxial GaN layers in order to compensate for the differing lattice constants and thermal expansion coefficients of GaN and silicon. For example, buffer layers of AlN, AlGaN and AlGaIN have been grown between the silicon substrate and the GaN layers.
- The quality of the epitaxial GaN layers, however, that can be grown over existing buffer layers has been poor. Current methods of forming buffer layers of AlN and AlGaN have resulted in epitaxial growth of GaN layers that contain structural defects such as discontinuities, dislocations and faults. These defects degrade the morphology and optical properties of the GaN layers, rendering the GaN layers unsuitable for use in high quality LEDs.
- A method is sought for growing buffer layers on a silicon substrate that allows high quality epitaxial GaN layers with fewer structural defects to be grown over the buffer layers.
- A silicon wafer used in manufacturing crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) for light emitting diodes (LEDs) includes a silicon substrate, a buffer layer of aluminum nitride (AlN), a second buffer layer of aluminum gallium nitride (AlxGa1-xN), and an upper layer of GaN. The silicon wafer has a diameter of at least 200 millimeters and an Si(111)1×1 surface (as opposed to a Si(111)7×7 reconstructed surface). The AlN buffer layer overlies the Si(111) surface of the substrate and is between 205 to 250 nanometers thick. The second buffer layer of aluminum gallium nitride is disposed between the buffer layer of aluminum nitride and the upper layer of gallium nitride.
- Across the entire wafer substantially no aluminum atoms of the AlN are present in a bottom most plane of atoms of the AlN buffer layer, and across the entire wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the AlN buffer layer are present in the bottom most plane of atoms of the AlN. Thus, the AlN buffer layer has a single polarity. The silicon and AlN are oriented as AlN<0001>∥Si<111>. No amount of metallic aluminum is disposed between the silicon substrate and the AlN buffer layer. In addition, no layer of SiNx is present between the silicon substrate and the AlN buffer layer.
- A method of making an AlN buffer layer includes preflowing a first small amount of ammonia (NH3) before flowing trimethylaluminum in order to form single polarity AlN. The crystallinity of the AlN buffer layer is influenced by the quality of the initial nucleation layer of AlN and the nature of the atomic bonding between the AlN and the silicon(111) surface. Because of the ammonia preflow step, the initial nucleation layer of AlN begins to grow with only nitrogen atoms bonded to the silicon(111) surface over the entire surface of the silicon wafer.
- In a first cleaning step, a substrate of silicon (Si) is heated to a temperature above 950° C. in a reaction chamber of a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) device. Then hydrogen (H2) is flowed through the chamber in an amount between 106 and 118 cubic centimeters of hydrogen per minute over each square centimeter of the surface of the silicon substrate. In one aspect, the temperature in the chamber during the flowing of hydrogen is above 1100° C.
- In the ammonia preflow step, a first amount of ammonia is flowed through the reaction chamber while the hydrogen is still flowing through the chamber. The first amount of ammonia is less than 0.01% by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber. The first amount of ammonia does not exceed 0.006 cubic centimeters per minute over each square centimeter of the surface of the silicon substrate. The ammonia preflow step is performed for between thirty seconds to three minutes. The temperature in the chamber during the ammonia preflow step is between 1000° C. and 1050° C.
- Then, trimethylaluminum (Al2(CH3)5) is flowed through the chamber while the hydrogen and first amount of ammonia are still flowing through the chamber. The trimethyl-aluminum is flowed through the chamber for between ten to twenty minutes in an amount of about ninety micromoles per minute.
- Then a subsequent amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber while the trimethylaluminum is still flowing through the chamber. The subsequent amount of ammonia is greater than 0.002% by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber. In one aspect, the subsequent amount of ammonia flowed through the chamber was just under 5% of the total amount of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum.
- Further details and embodiments and techniques are described in the detailed description below. This summary does not purport to define the invention. The invention is defined by the claims.
- The accompanying drawings, where like numerals indicate like components, illustrate embodiments of the invention.
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FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the growth of a single crystal GaN film on buffer layers over a silicon substrate. -
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for growing an initial nucleation layer of AlN on a silicon substrate. -
FIG. 3A shows a model of the crystal structure of silicon. -
FIG. 3B is a diagram of the silicon atoms along an Si(111)1×1 surface of silicon. -
FIG. 4 is a graph of gas flows of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum through a reaction chamber during the method ofFIG. 2 . -
FIG. 5 shows a model of the crystal structure of wurtzite aluminum nitride. -
FIG. 6 is a diagram of the crystal structure of the aluminum hexagons in the C-plane of AlN superimposed over the crystal structure of silicon along the Si(111)1×1 surface. -
FIG. 7 is a diagram of the crystal structures of a silicon substrate and an AlN nucleation layer viewed perpendicular to the Si(111) surface. - Reference will now be made in detail to some embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the growth of a singlecrystal GaN film 10 on buffer layers over asilicon substrate 11. A buffer layer of aluminum nitride (AlN) 12 is first grown on thesilicon substrate 11. Then higher buffer of layers of aluminum gallium nitride (AlxGa1-xN) 13 are grown over theAlN layer 12. Finally, theGaN layer 10 is grown over the top layer ofaluminum gallium nitride 13. In some embodiments, the GaN layer includes several sublayers. The buffer layer ofAlN 12 is made up of a lowerinitial nucleation layer 14 and thickerupper layers 15. - There are several reasons for first growing buffer layers on a silicon substrate before the gallium nitride (GaN)
layer 10 is grown. First, meltback etching of thesilicon substrate 11 by gallium occurs if the gallium is allowed to react directly with the silicon substrate. The reaction between gallium and silicon results in poor crystal quality and morphology of theGaN layer 10. Second, SiNx can be formed as GaN is deposited on silicon, which leads to a 3-dimensional growth of GaN crystals instead of a 2-dimensional growth over the entire surface of the silicon substrate before the GaN layer thickens. Three-dimensional crystal growth leads to lower quality GaN layer than does 2-dimensional crystal growth. Third, the lattice mismatch between GaN and crystalline silicon causes a large tensile strain on the GaN layer at the interface with the silicon. The lattice mismatch at room temperature between GaN and the hexagonal surface orientation of silicon Si(111) is about 16.9%. Fourth, the in-plane thermal expansion coefficients of GaN on Si(111) vary widely (5.59×10−6K−1 for GaN and 2.6×10−6K−1 for Si). The difference in thermal expansion coefficients can result in cracking of the GaN layer upon cooling from the growth temperature to room temperature. - To solve the problems caused by growing GaN directly on silicon, buffer layers are typically deposited between the silicon and the GaN. For example, a nucleation layer of
AlN 12 can first be grown on thesilicon substrate 11, followed by the additional buffer layers 13 of aluminum gallium nitride (AlxGa1-xN). The AlN nucleation layer and the other buffer layers solve the four problems described above. First, theAlN buffer layer 12 does not allow gallium to come into contact with thesilicon substrate 11. Second, GaN is not grown directly on the silicon substrate, so the formation of amorphous SiNx can be prevented on the surface of the silicon, which would otherwise degrade the crystal formation of the GaN. Third, the lattice mismatch between GaN and Si(111) is compensated by the smaller lattice constant of AlN that applies compressive stress to the GaN to counteract the tensile stress of GaN from the underlying Si(111). Fourth, the smaller lattice constant of AlN compensates for the greater proportionate shrinking of the GaN crystal compared to the silicon crystal as both cool from the growth temperature to room temperature. - The quality of the GaN layer and other epitaxial layers, however, is also dependent on the quality of the
AlN nucleation layer 12. Consequently, simply growing a layer of AlN to solve the aforementioned four problems that result from growing GaN directly on silicon will not necessarily result in high-quality GaN. The properties of the aluminumnitride nucleation layer 12, such as its dislocation density and surface morphology, are critical in influencing the properties of the higher epitaxial layers. TheAlN layer 12 acts as a crystallographic template for the higher buffer layers and ultimately for theGaN layer 10. The properties of theAlN layer 12, in turn, are determined in large part by the conditions under which the growth of the AlN is initiated and by how thesilicon substrate 11 is treated prior to growth of the AlN. - It would seem that growing an AlN layer that has a low dislocation density over Si(111) would be hindered by the 23.4% lattice mismatch between AlN and Si(111). The distance between silicon atoms in the (111) plane of a silicon crystal is 3.840 angstroms, whereas the distance between aluminum atoms or between nitrogen atoms in the C-plane of wurtzite AlN is 3.112 angstroms. Smooth interface morphology between AlN and Si(111) can be achieved, however, due to the lattice coincidence between the (111) plane of silicon and the C-plane of AlN which permits the relaxation of the crystal stress at regular intervals of misfit dislocation at the AlN/Si interface. Achieving the same type of misfit dislocations at regular intervals is critical to obtaining a smooth interface morphology.
- A method is disclosed for beginning the growth of AlN that results in a smooth interface between AlN and Si(111). The method grows a single polarity buffer layer of AlN having a low dislocation density. The subsequent buffer layers grown over the AlN buffer layer retain the high quality crystalline form and enable higher quality GaN and other epitaxial layers to be grown over the buffer layers.
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FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating steps of amethod 16 for growing a high-quality AlN nucleation layer on a silicon substrate. In afirst step 17, a substrate of silicon (Si) is heated to a temperature above 950° C. in a chamber. In one aspect, the substrate was heated to a temperature of 1140° C. in the reaction chamber of a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system (also called a metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy system). The substrate was in the form of three 8-inch silicon wafers cut along the (111) plane. The three wafers were placed on a wafer receptacle having a diameter of 465 millimeters. -
FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating thecrystal structure 23 of silicon. The (111) plane along which the three silicon wafers are cleaved is the plane that intersects the silicon atoms A, C and F inFIG. 3A . The silicon atoms A, F and 24 define the (010) plane, in which the silicon atoms form a square format. The distance between silicon atoms at adjacent corners of the squares of the identical (100), (010) and (001) planes is 5.431 angstroms. There is a shorter distance, however, between adjacent silicon atoms of the hexagonal format of the (111) plane. For example, the distance between atoms A and B in the (111) plane is 3.840 angstroms. This shorter distance between atoms in the hexagonal format of Si(111) better matches the distance between nitrogen atoms in the hexagonal format along the C-plane of AlN.FIG. 3B illustrates the atoms A-F of FIG. A in which the (111) plane coincides with the plane of the page. The surface of the three silicon wafers afterfirst step 17 has a Si(111)1×1structure 25 as shown inFIG. 3B as opposed to the dimer-adatom-stacking (DAS) fault structure of the Si(111)7×7 reconstruction. The more-stable, faceted Si(111)7×7 surface structure breaks down to the regular Si(111)1×1hexagonal structure 25 as the silicon substrates are heated above about 850° C. - In
step 18, hydrogen is flowed through the chamber in order to remove SiO2 from the wafers and generally to clean the surface of the silicon substrate. Between 106 and 118 cubic centimeters of hydrogen per minute flow over each square centimeter of the surface of the substrate. In one aspect, 180-200 liters of hydrogen per minute was flowed through the chamber. The silicon substrate was baked in the hydrogen flow at 1140° C. for about fifteen minutes to remove the native oxide. Then, the temperature in the chamber was lowered to about 1020° C. - In
step 19, a first amount of ammonia (NH3) is flowed through the chamber while the hydrogen is still flowing through the chamber. The first amount of ammonia is less than 0.01% of by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber. The first amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber for between thirty seconds to three minutes. In one aspect, less than ten cubic centimeters of ammonia per minute was flowed over the 465-mm wafer receptacle. Thus, less than 0.00588 cubic centimeters per minute of ammonia flowed over each square centimeter of the surface of the silicon substrate. At 1020° C., the first amount of ammonia is insufficient to form a layer of SINx over the surface of the silicon substrate. The first amount of ammonia is, however, sufficient to form a small number of Si—N bonds on the Si(111)1×1 surface. - In
step 20, trimethylaluminum (Al2(CH3)6) is flowed through the chamber while the hydrogen is still flowing through the chamber. The trimethylaluminum flows through the chamber in an amount of about ninety micromoles per minute. In one aspect, ninety micromoles per minute of trimethylaluminum flowed through the chamber for between ten to twenty minutes. - In
step 21, a subsequent amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber while the trimethylaluminum is still flowing through the chamber. The subsequent amount of ammonia is greater than 0.002% by volume of the hydrogen flowing through the chamber. In one aspect, the subsequent amount of ammonia flowed through the chamber was just under 5% of the total amount of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum. When the subsequent amount of ammonia was flowed through the chamber at just under 5% of the total flow for about fifteen minutes, aninitial nucleation layer 14 of aluminum nitride (AlN) grew to a thickness of between 25-50 nanometers. The crystallinity of theAlN buffer layer 12 is related to the quality of theinitial nucleation layer 14 and the nature of the atomic bonding between the silicon(111) surface and the AlN. Because of the ammonia preflow instep 19, theinitial nucleation layer 14 begins to grow with only nitrogen atoms bonded to the silicon(111) surface over the entire surface of the 8-inch wafers. - In a
step 22, the flow of trimethylaluminum is increased to about 180 micromoles per minute, and the temperature in the chamber is increased to about 1120° C. The buffer layer of AlN is grown an additional 180-200 nanometers to a total thickness of 205-250 nanometers under the increased flow of trimethylaluminum. -
FIG. 4 is a graph that represents the flows of hydrogen, ammonia and trimethylaluminum through the reaction chamber during the cleaning, preflow, initial growth and thicker growth stages of the formation of the AlN buffer layer. In other embodiments, the additional 180-200 nanometers of AlN is grown in multiple stages of higher trimethylaluminum concentration as opposed to in one step. - The
initial nucleation layer 14 of AlN first starts to form when the trimethylaluminum starts flowing through the chamber instep 20 and before the subsequent amount of ammonia is flowed through the chamber instep 21. Consequently, a very small amount of nitrogen is present on the Si(111)1×1 surface of thesilicon substrate 11 before the aluminum from the trimethylaluminum comes into contact with the substrate surface. As the first seed crystals of AlN are formed, the aluminum atoms form bonds to the nitrogen atoms that are present on the Si(111)1×1 surface as opposed to directly with silicon atoms on the substrate surface. The nitrogen from the ammonia preflow step ensures that the polarity of the alternating layers of aluminum and nitrogen in the AlN crystals that are formed across the entire silicon wafer will have a nitrogen layer facing the silicon substrate and an aluminum layer on top. -
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating thecrystal structure 26 of wurtzite aluminum nitride (AlN). The smaller spheres representaluminum atoms 27, and the larger spheres representnitrogen atoms 28. The C-plane of the AlN crystal intersects all six aluminum atoms that form a hexagon on the top surface of the crystal. The distance between adjacent aluminum atoms around the hexagon in the C-plane is 3.112 angstroms. The distance between adjacent nitrogen atoms around the middle hexagon is therefore also 3.112 angstroms. The hexagons of nitrogen and aluminum along the C-plane of AlN approximately match the hexagonal format of silicon atoms on the Si(111)1×1 surface of the silicon substrate. -
FIG. 6 is a diagram of the crystal structure of the aluminum hexagons in the C-plane of AlN superimposed over the crystal structure of the silicon substrate on the Si(111)1×1 surface. Because the distance between atoms around the silicon hexagon is 3.840 angstroms and the distance between the atoms around the hexagons of AlN is 3.112 angstroms, the lattice distance of a silicon cell unit is 6.652 angstroms and the lattice distance of an AlN cell unit is 5.390 angstroms. Thus, there is a 23.4% lattice mismatch. However, the width of five AlN cell units (26.95 angstroms) approximately matches the width of four silicon cell units (26.61 angstroms), as illustrated inFIG. 6 . Every fifth AlN cell unit can bond well to every fourth silicon cell unit. -
FIG. 7 is a diagram of the crystal structures of the silicon substrate and AlN viewed perpendicular to the Si(111)1×1 surface and the C-plane of AlN.FIG. 7 illustrates how each fifth cell unit of the AlN crystal approximately matches each fourth cell unit on the Si(111)1×1 surface. The regular mismatch between surface structures of AlN and silicon allows a crystal of AlN to be grown with a low dislocation density. - The dislocation density of the AlN buffer layer is considerably higher, however, if not all islands of AlN crystals that begin to form on the Si(111)1×1 surface have the same polarity. If some islands of AlN crystals form with nitrogen atoms bonded to the silicon while other islands of AlN crystals form with aluminum atoms bonded to the silicon, then discontinuities and stacking faults will form where the islands of crystals having opposite polarity grow together.
FIG. 7 shows that the initial nucleation layer of AlN formed usingmethod 16 has only nitrogen atoms bonded to the Si(111)1×1 surface. Across the entire substrate wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the aluminum nitride are present in the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride. Because the initial nucleation layer of AlN formed usingmethod 16 has a single polarity, it was possible to grow a GaN layer above the nucleation layer that had a dislocation density of less that 2×109 cm−2. - Some prior methods of growing an AlN buffer layer begin by depositing a metallic Al layer on the surface of the silicon substrate before the AlN is grown in order to prevent the formation of amorphous SiNx. The presence of aluminum atoms on surface of the silicon substrate probably causes at least some of the islands of AlN crystals to form with aluminum as the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride. Because these prior art methods do not prevent at least some nitrogen atoms from bonding to the silicon substrate (not necessarily as amorphous SiNx), some islands of AlN crystals form with nitrogen as the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride, and the resulting AlN layer has mixed polarity.
Method 16, on the other hand, allows a single polarity material to be grown. - Thus,
method 16 can be used to manufacture a wafer of silicon substrate over which an AlN buffer layer, AlGaN layers and finally an upper GaN layer are grown. The silicon substrate has an Si(111) surface, which converts from a 7×7 structure to a 1×1 structure when the silicon is heated above about 850° C. The AlN buffer layer is a means for compensating for the lattice mismatch between the GaN and the Si(111) surface of the silicon substrate so as to enable the upper GaN layer to grow under reduced stress. The AlGaN on top of the AlN buffer layer is a better lattice match for GaN than in silicon. The silicon substrate is a wafer with a diameter of at least 200 millimeters, such as an 8-inch wafer. The AlN buffer layer overlies the Si(111) surface of the substrate and is oriented as AlN<0001>∥Si<111>. The upper layer of GaN is grown on the AlGaN layers over the AlN buffer layer. Across the entire wafer substantially no aluminum atoms of the aluminum nitride are present in a bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride, and across the entire wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the aluminum nitride are present in the bottom most plane of atoms of the aluminum nitride. Thus, across the entire wafer substantially only nitrogen atoms of the AlN buffer layer form bonds to the Si(111) surface. There is neither metallic aluminum nor any layer of SiNx present between the silicon substrate and the AlN buffer layer. - Although certain specific embodiments are described above for instructional purposes, the teachings of this patent document have general applicability and are not limited to the specific embodiments described above. Accordingly, various modifications, adaptations, and combinations of various features of the described embodiments can be practiced without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the claims.
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