CN107527958A - A kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method - Google Patents

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CN107527958A
CN107527958A CN201710740572.7A CN201710740572A CN107527958A CN 107527958 A CN107527958 A CN 107527958A CN 201710740572 A CN201710740572 A CN 201710740572A CN 107527958 A CN107527958 A CN 107527958A
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Abstract

A kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method of the present invention, step 1:Take and completed mesa etch and unpassivated super crystal lattice material sample, sample is fitted into high-vacuum chamber after cleaning, vacuum is higher than 10‑6Torr;Step 2:The surface and side wall of superlattices table top are cleared up at a temperature of 0 150 DEG C using atomic layer lithographic technique, to etch and remove the amounts of residual contamination of oxide layer and preceding road technique in surface and side wall;Step 3:After atomic layer etch step terminates, technique for atomic layer deposition layer by layer deposition growth of passivation layer at a temperature of 0 280 DEG C is utilized in same vacuum system, to be passivated the surface of superlattices table top and side wall.The present invention can effectively improve the lateral resistivity of table top, so as to suppression device electric leakage in side direction, lift detector performance.

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A kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method
Technical field
The invention belongs to semiconductor materials and devices technical field, specifically a kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation Method, it can be applied to the surface passivation of II class superlattices infrared detector device.
Background technology
The II class super crystal lattice material based on III-V race semiconductor InAs/GaSb is a kind of new infrared detector material, Compared to mercury cadmium telluride and superlattices detector in the market, have and 1) can be adjusted on a large scale by changing superlattice structure Detect wavelength;2) auger recombination probability is relatively low, is advantageous to improve operating temperature;3) Infrared Absorption Coefficient of material is high, interband jump The photoelectric efficiency moved is high;4) the electron tunneling probability of superlattice structure is relatively low, so as to reduce dark current;5) large area array device is made The more low many advantages of cost and difficulty of part, therefore infrared detector increasingly expands in military and civil area application Exhibition, covers strategic early-warning, battlefield surveillance, atmospheric monitoring, space communication, spaceborne detection, safety monitoring, intelligent transportation and medical treatment Deng field.
When making superlattices infrared detector device, it is necessary to which the superlattices epitaxial wafer grown is etched into discrete platform Face, now the side wall of table top become exposed new surface in the environment.Two class super crystal lattice materials are due to effective energy gap Very little (is less than 0.3eV, some is even less than 0.03eV), on the surface of material because the presence energy band at interface will be bent, energy The bending of band is easy to produce the potential well of carrier on small gap material surface, so as to form surface conductive layer;Meanwhile InAs, Two kinds of materials of GaSb are all oxidized easily, and are formed the semimetal As of simple substance and residued in mesa sides with metal Sb, make surface It is coarse, surface state is introduced, increase surface non-radiative is compound, increases sidewall leakage, so surface passivation technology is to II class superlattices The performance of infrared detector is most important.It is further noted that InAs/GaSb super crystal lattice materials are impatient at the work of high temperature Skill process, and the technological temperature in passivation layer growth technique common at present more than 300 DEG C can cause to damage to superlattice structure So as to influence its performance, therefore it is highly desirable to develop a kind of surface passivation technology of low temperature.
The content of the invention
It is an object of the invention to provide a kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method, it is lateral table top can be effectively improved Resistivity, so as to suppression device electric leakage in side direction, lift detector performance.
The present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions above-mentioned purpose:
A kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method, comprises the following steps:
Step 1:Take and completed mesa etch and unpassivated super crystal lattice material sample, sample is loaded into height after cleaning In vacuum chamber, vacuum is higher than 10-6Torr;
Step 2:Carried out using surface of the atomic layer lithographic technique at a temperature of 0-150 DEG C to superlattices table top and side wall Cleaning, to etch and remove the amounts of residual contamination of oxide layer and preceding road technique in surface and side wall;
Step 3:After atomic layer etch step terminates, using technique for atomic layer deposition in 0-280 in same vacuum system Layer by layer deposition growth of passivation layer at a temperature of DEG C, to be passivated the surface of superlattices table top and side wall.
Further, the super crystal lattice material is the class superlattices infrared detector material of antimonide base II.
Further, the atomic layer etching in the step 2 is to expose the samples to containing chlorine plasma, containing argon or contain In the ALT pulse of neon plasma, successively to etch the surface of sample and side wall, the repetition period of ALT pulse is more than or waited In 1.
Further, the passivation material of the atom layer deposition process growth in the step 3 includes aluminum oxide, oxidation Silicon, silicon nitride or III-V compounds of group, passivation layer passivation material as described in individual layer, two layers or multilayer, which stacks, to be formed,
Further, the passivation layer gross thickness is 2-1000 nanometers.
Compared with prior art, the beneficial effect of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method of the present invention is:1) technique Whole process is all carried out in same high vacuum system, and midway does not expose air, and the material surface after clearing up will not be again by oxygen Change or adsorption moisture;2) surface of table top and side wall pass through the cleaning of atomic layer lithographic technique, oxide layer and foreign-matter contamination quilt Remove totally, ensured the interface quality between passivation layer and superlattices, higher lateral resistivity, suppression device can be obtained Electric leakage in side direction, lift device performance;3) during technique for atomic layer deposition growth of passivation layer, the depositing temperature of use is relatively low, therefore blunt Change technical process to superlattice structure not damaged;4) passivation layer thickness of technique for atomic layer deposition deposition is uniform, element proportioning essence Really, resistivity is high, and the high quality passivation of large area array device can be achieved;5) atomic layer etching and technique for atomic layer deposition are all to have certainly The technical process of restricted, isotropism and form-dependent character, process thickness can be controlled by number reaction time, and etched Or growth is not influenceed by mesa shape or height, therefore this passivation technology is easily controllable, repeated height, can be applied to each wave band The surface passivation of superlattices infrared detector device.
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Fig. 1 is the superlattices table top schematic diagram after transpassivation.
Fig. 2 is not to be passivated to scheme with the lateral resistivity contrasts of table top for being passivated device under 83K.
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Technical scheme is further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Embodiment shows a kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method, in order to show the passivation of present invention effect Fruit, include the step of the present embodiment:
Step 1:Four are taken to complete mesa etch and unpassivated super crystal lattice material sample, super crystal lattice material is antimony The class superlattices infrared detector material of compound base II, includes but not limited to InAs/GaSb superlattices, InAs/InAsSb superlattices It is the Long Wave Infrared Probe material that 90% cutoff wavelength is 12.3 microns Deng, sample, mesa shape is square, the table top length of side Respectively 75 microns, 150 microns, 270 microns and 400 microns, are fitted into high-vacuum chamber, vacuum after sample is cleaned with acetone Degree is higher than 10-6Torr, preferably 5 × 10-7Torr;
Step 2:Etching (Atomic Layer Etching, ALE) using atomic layer, technology is at 0-150 DEG C, and preferably 30 The surface of superlattices table top and side wall are cleared up at DEG C, to etch and remove oxide layer and the preceding road in surface and side wall The amounts of residual contamination of technique, atomic layer etching is using the ALT pulse containing chlorine plasma and containing argon plasma, alternating The repetition period of pulse is more than or equal to 1, preferably repeats to etch 5 cycles, etch thicknesses are about 1 nanometer;
Step 3:After atomic layer etch step terminates, ald (Atomic is used in same vacuum system immediately Layer Deposition, ALD) technology growth passivation material, passivation material include aluminum oxide, silica, silicon nitride or III-V compounds of group, passivation layer can be made up of single above-mentioned material, can also be stacked by two layers or multilayer above-mentioned material and Into passivation layer gross thickness is 2-1000 nanometers.Passivation layer is preferably alumina passivation layer, and depositing temperature is 0-280 DEG C, is preferably 120 DEG C, deposited using the ALT pulse of trimethyl aluminium and hydrone, the alumina passivation layer thickness for depositing to obtain is received for 10 Rice.
As a comparison, while four additional is taken to complete mesa etch but blunt without surface with size identical in step 1 The super crystal lattice material sample of change is to be measured.
Fig. 1 is the superlattice device schematic diagram through transpassivation, and wherein P1 represents superlattices table top, and P2 represents passivation layer, P3 The sample substrate where superlattices is represented, P4 and P5 represent a pair of electrodes of device.
By the use of liquid nitrogen as cooling source, all R not being passivated with passive sample are measured at a temperature of 83K0A values, then As shown in Fig. 2 by the girth area of each sample than P/A and R0The inverse of A values makees linear fit, uses formula:
It is not passivated the ρ with passive sampleSurfaceValue, the i.e. lateral resistivity of table top.Contrast it is visible, using this After invention passivating method, the lateral resistivity of table top of device has brought up to 137k Ω cm by 10.5k Ω cm, improves one The order of magnitude, while the quality of super crystal lattice material has no degeneration, this shows that passivation technology of the present invention effectively inhibits the side wall of device Electric leakage, serves good passivation.
Above-described is only one embodiment of the present invention.For the person of ordinary skill of the art, not On the premise of departing from the invention design, various modifications and improvements can be made, these belong to the protection model of the present invention Enclose.

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1. a kind of superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method, it is characterised in that comprise the following steps:
Step 1:Take and completed mesa etch and unpassivated super crystal lattice material sample, sample is loaded into high vacuum after cleaning In chamber, vacuum is higher than 10-6Torr;
Step 2:The surface and side wall of superlattices table top are cleared up at a temperature of 0-150 DEG C using atomic layer lithographic technique, To etch and remove the amounts of residual contamination of oxide layer and preceding road technique in surface and side wall;
Step 3:After atomic layer etch step terminates, using technique for atomic layer deposition in 0-280 DEG C of temperature in same vacuum system The lower layer by layer deposition growth of passivation layer of degree, to be passivated the surface of superlattices table top and side wall.
2. superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The superlattices material Expect for the class superlattices infrared detector material of antimonide base II.
3. superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:In the step 2 Atomic layer etching be to expose the samples in the ALT pulse containing chlorine plasma, containing argon or the plasma containing neon, with successively Surface and the side wall of sample are etched, the repetition period of ALT pulse is more than or equal to 1.
4. superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:In the step 3 Atom layer deposition process growth passivation material include aluminum oxide, silica, silicon nitride or III-V compounds of group, it is described Passivation layer passivation material as described in individual layer, two layers or multilayer, which stacks, to be formed.
5. superlattices infrared detector surface passivation method according to claim 4, it is characterised in that:The passivation layer is total Thickness is 2-1000 nanometers.
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