The thermal stability of Au-LaB6 Schottky-diodes on n-GaAs has been investigated using I/V-measurements and XPS-analysis. The e-beam evaporated contact systems exhibit good electrical properties. It could be shown that the ideality factor and the barrier height improves after a certain annealing step and remains almost stable even after prolonged operation at 400°C. This demonstrates the suitability of lanthanum hexaboride to be used as a high temperature stable diffusion barrier in Au-LaB6 Schottky contacts to GaAs.
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Solid State Device Research Conference, 1989. ESSDERC '89. 19th European
Date of Conference:
11-14 Sept. 1989
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165
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168
- Print ISBN:
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0387510001
- Conference Location :
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Berlin, Germany