Background
With the development of microelectronic technology, microelectronic devices based on semiconductor materials have been used in human society. The high-power phased array photoelectric detection radar large on a warship and the microprocessor chip small in a mobile phone are all composed of microelectronic devices made of semiconductor materials. The pursuit of high performance microelectronic devices has prompted the development of semiconductor materials. The earliest semiconductor material used in large scale is semiconductor silicon, and with the improvement of device integration, the device is gradually miniaturized, and the defects of silicon material are gradually exposed. Because of the small forbidden band width and low breakdown field strength of silicon semiconductors, it is difficult to apply the silicon semiconductors in high frequency, high power and photoelectric fields. For this reason, new semiconductor materials, such as gallium arsenide, silicon carbide, gallium nitride, zinc oxide, gallium oxide, etc., have been developed to meet higher performance requirements. Compared with the traditional silicon material, the material has the characteristics of large forbidden band width, high breakdown field strength and high carrier mobility, is suitable for preparing high-frequency, high-speed and high-power devices, and has wide application in the photoelectric field because most of the devices have direct band gaps. Some of the wide bandgap semiconductor materials described above have been commercially implemented in high power microelectronic devices.
The production of high-performance electronic devices is based on high-quality semiconductor materials. At present, the preparation conditions of the wide bandgap semiconductor single crystal material are harsh, and the large-scale production is difficult, so that the application of the thin film material is more. The high-quality wide-bandgap semiconductor thin film material is prepared by an epitaxial growth method and is divided into a homoepitaxy method and a heteroepitaxy method. Due to the manufacturing or price of bulk materials, homoepitaxy is not always feasible, so heteroepitaxy is generally selected to manufacture wide bandgap semiconductor thin film materials, i.e., epitaxial growth is performed on substrates of different materials. However, the lattice constants of the epitaxial material and the hetero-single crystal substrate are different, and lattice mismatch exists, so that it is difficult to obtain a high-quality epitaxial semiconductor film, and therefore, an improved preparation method is urgently needed to solve the problem of low crystallization quality of the hetero-epitaxial film.
In summary, in order to solve the problem that a high-quality semiconductor single crystal film is difficult to prepare in the preparation of a high-performance electronic device, the invention provides a method for inserting an array buffer layer between a semiconductor film material and a substrate, and the method can effectively reduce the influence of lattice mismatch on the growth of the material and improve the crystallization quality of the semiconductor film material prepared by a hetero-epitaxial method.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention designs a method for preparing a high-quality semiconductor single crystal film by using an array buffer layer, which solves the technical problem that the existing semiconductor film has low crystallization quality.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following scheme:
a method for preparing a high-quality semiconductor single crystal thin film by using an array buffer layer comprises the following steps: step 1, cleaning a substrate; step 2, preparing an array buffer layer; and 3, preparing the semiconductor film.
Preferably, the preparation of the array buffer layer in step 2 is performed by laser molecular beam epitaxy, and specifically includes the following steps: step 21, mounting a semiconductor target on a target holder of a laser molecular beam epitaxy system, then covering a clean porous anodic alumina template on the substrate cleaned in the step 1, then fixing the substrate on a sample holder of a growth chamber together, vacuumizing to a certain vacuum degree, heating the substrate to a certain temperature, and then introducing sputtering gas to keep the pressure of the growth chamber at a certain pressure; and step 22, depositing for a certain time under the condition of pulse laser with certain power, taking out the substrate and the porous anodic alumina template after deposition is finished, and removing the covered porous anodic alumina template to obtain the semiconductor array buffer layer with certain thickness.
Preferably, the certain temperature in step 21 is 20 ℃ to 800 ℃; the vacuum chamber pressure in step 21 is maintained at 1 x 10-3Pa-30 Pa; the sputtering gas in the step 21 is oxygen or a mixed gas of oxygen and argon; the pressure in step 21 is 5 x 10-2Pa。
Preferably, the template in step 22 is a porous anodized aluminum template; the array in step 22 is a semiconductor array buffer layer with a thickness of 1-10 nm; the time described in step 22 is 95 seconds or more.
Preferably, the semiconductor thin film prepared in step 3 is prepared by pulsed laser deposition, comprising the steps of:
step 31, fixing the substrate with the semiconductor array buffer layer obtained in the step 2 on a sample table of a growth chamber, vacuumizing to a certain vacuum degree, heating the substrate to a certain temperature, and introducing sputtering gas; adjusting a gate valve to keep the pressure of the vacuum chamber at a certain pressure;
and 32, depositing for a certain time under the condition of pulse laser with certain power to obtain the high-quality semiconductor film with a certain thickness.
Preferably, the temperature in step 31 is 20 ℃ to 800 ℃; the vacuum chamber pressure in step 31 is maintained at 1 x 10-3Pa-30 Pa; the sputtering gas in the step 31 is oxygen or a mixed gas of oxygen and argon; the pressure in step 31 is 5 x 10-2Pa。
Preferably, the deposition is performed for 20 min to 360 min under the condition of the pulsed laser with certain power in the step 32; the power was 300 mW.
Preferably, the step 1 of cleaning the substrate specifically comprises the following steps: putting the substrate into a beaker, ultrasonically cleaning the substrate for 5 minutes by using acetone, alcohol and deionized water in sequence to remove organic impurities and residual ions on the substrate, and then drying the substrate by using nitrogen for later use; the substrate is made of single crystal sapphire, single crystal silicon, single crystal gallium oxide, silicon carbide and quartz glass.
Preferably, the method for preparing the array buffer layer in step 2 further comprises: magnetron sputtering deposition, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition or organometallic chemical vapor deposition methods; step 3 other methods of preparing a semiconductor thin film further include: magnetron sputtering deposition, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, photo-assisted or plasma-assisted organometallic chemical vapor deposition, and the like.
The semiconductor single crystal film is prepared by the method, the light transmittance of the semiconductor film is up to more than 95%, and the half-peak width is as low as 0.076 degrees;the semiconductor is Ga2O3Zinc oxide, tin dioxide, hafnium oxide, cuprous oxide, aluminum nitride, gallium nitride, boron nitride, or indium nitride.
The method for preparing the high-quality semiconductor single crystal film by utilizing the array buffer layer has the following beneficial effects:
(1) according to the invention, the array buffer layer is introduced as the middle layer, so that the stress and dislocation caused by thermal mismatch and lattice mismatch are reduced, and the crystallization quality of the film can be obviously improved.
(2) The target material particles sputtered by the invention have higher energy and better adhesion with the substrate, can form a film at lower temperature even room temperature, and can realize the deposition of the film on some special substrate materials at low temperature.
Detailed Description
With reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, Ga is a semiconductor material2O3The invention is further illustrated by way of example:
as shown in FIG. 1, samples No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 correspond to Ga prepared at 200 deg.C, 400 deg.C, 600 deg.C and 800 deg.C, respectively2O3A film; fig. 1 shows that the bandwidth becomes larger as the temperature increases.
As shown in FIG. 2, gallium oxide has three characteristic peaks, namely a (-201) peak near 19 °, a (-402) peak near 38 °, and a (-603) peak near 60 °. In the vicinity of 21 ° and 42 °, peaks of the sapphire substrate are present.
As shown in fig. 3, the dot-shaped protrusions are gallium oxide arrays, and the arrays are arranged in order and have regular intervals.
Preparation of high-quality Ga by utilizing array buffer layer2O3A method of making a film comprising the steps of: step 1, cleaning a substrate; step 2, preparing an array buffer layer; step 3 preparation of Ga2O3A film.
The preparation of the array buffer layer in the step 2 is carried out by laser molecular beam epitaxy, and the method specifically comprises the following steps: step 21 of converting Ga2O3Mounting a target material on a target support of a laser molecular beam epitaxy system, covering a clean porous anodic alumina template on the substrate cleaned in the step (1), fixing the porous anodic alumina template and the substrate on a sample support of a growth chamber, vacuumizing to a certain vacuum degree, heating the substrate to a certain temperature, introducing sputtering gas, and adjusting a gate valve to keep the pressure of the growth chamber at a certain pressure; step 22, depositing for a certain time under the condition of pulse laser with a certain power, taking out the substrate and the porous anodic alumina template after deposition is finished, and removing the covered porous anodic alumina template to obtain Ga with a certain thickness2O3An array buffer layer.
The certain temperature in the step 21 is 20-800 ℃; the pressure of the vacuum chamber in step 21 is maintained at 1 x 10-3Pa-30 Pa; sputtering gas in the step 21 is oxygen or mixed gas of oxygen and argon; the pressure in step 21 is 5 x 10-2Pa. Preferably, the template in step 22 is a porous anodized aluminum template;
the array in step 22 is Ga 1-10 nm thick2O3An array buffer layer; the time in step 22 is 95 seconds.
Preparation of Ga in step 32O3The film is prepared by pulsed laser deposition and comprises the following steps: step 31 of adding Ga to the Ga-bearing alloy obtained in step 22O3Fixing the substrate of the array buffer layer on a sample table of a growth chamber, vacuumizing to a certain vacuum degree, heating the substrate to a certain temperature, and introducing sputtering gas; adjusting a gate valve to keep the pressure of the vacuum chamber at a certain pressure; step 32, depositing for a certain time under the condition of pulse laser with a certain power to obtain high-quality Ga with a certain thickness2O3A film.
The temperature in step 31 is 20-800 ℃; or/and the pressure of the vacuum chamber in step 31 is kept at 1 x 10-3Pa-30 Pa; or/and the sputtering gas in the step 31 is oxygen or a mixed gas of oxygen and argon; the pressure in step 31 is 5 x 10-2Pa。
Depositing for 20 min-360 min under the condition of pulse laser with certain power in the step 32; the power was 300 mW.
Step 1 the specific steps of cleaning the substrate are as follows: putting the substrate into a beaker, ultrasonically cleaning the substrate for 5 minutes by using acetone, alcohol and deionized water in sequence, and then drying the substrate by using nitrogen for later use; or/and the substrate is made of single crystal sapphire, single crystal silicon, single crystal gallium oxide, silicon carbide and quartz glass.
The method for preparing the array buffer layer in the step 2 further comprises the following steps: magnetron sputtering deposition, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition or organometallic chemical vapor deposition methods; alternatively, step 3 preparation of Ga2O3Other methods of thin films include: magnetron sputtering deposition, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, photo-assisted or plasma-assisted organometallic chemical vapor deposition, and the like.
The first embodiment is as follows:
the present embodiment is to prepare high quality Ga2O3The method for preparing the single crystal film comprises the following steps:
firstly, cleaning a substrate, putting the sapphire substrate into a beaker, ultrasonically cleaning for 5 minutes by sequentially utilizing acetone, alcohol and deionized water, and drying by using nitrogen.
Second, preparing Ga by utilizing laser molecular beam epitaxy2O3An array buffer layer.
Ga (b) is
2O
3The target material is arranged on a target holder of a laser molecular beam epitaxy system, and Ga is added
2O
3Target holder for mounting target material on laser molecular beam epitaxial systemThen, a clean porous anodized aluminum template is covered on the substrate cleaned in the first step, and then the substrate is fixed on a sample holder of a growth chamber together and vacuumized to 1 x 10
-6After Pa, the substrate was heated to 400 ℃ and oxygen was introduced, and the gate valve was adjusted to maintain the pressure in the vacuum chamber at 10
-2Pa。
Opening the pulse laser, depositing for 95 seconds, taking out the substrate and the porous anodic alumina template, removing the porous anodic alumina template to obtain Ga
2O
3An array buffer layer.
Thirdly, preparing Ga by utilizing laser molecular beam epitaxy2O3The film comprises the following specific steps:
firstly, the Ga-bearing material obtained in the second step2O3Fixing the substrate of the array buffer layer on a sample table of a growth chamber, heating the substrate with the array buffer layer to 400 ℃, and introducing oxygen; the gate valve was adjusted so that the pressure in the vacuum chamber was maintained at 10-2Pa is unchanged.
Turning on the pulse laser, depositing for 60min, annealing at 800 deg.C in oxygen atmosphere to obtain high-quality Ga
2O
3A film.
The second embodiment is as follows:
the present embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that: and the temperature of the substrate in the second step is 300 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The third concrete implementation mode:
the present embodiment differs from the first to second embodiments in that: and the temperature of the substrate in the second step is 200 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The fourth concrete implementation mode: the present embodiment differs from the first to third embodiments in that: and the temperature of the substrate in the second step is 100 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The fifth concrete implementation mode: the present embodiment differs from the first to fourth embodiments in that: and the temperature of the substrate in the second step is room temperature. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The sixth specific implementation mode: the present embodiment differs from the first to fifth embodiments in that: the array buffer layer temperature described in step three was 800 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The seventh embodiment: the present embodiment differs from the first to sixth embodiments in that: the array buffer layer temperature described in step three was 700 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The specific implementation mode is eight: the present embodiment differs from the first to seventh embodiments in that: the array buffer layer temperature described in step three was 600 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
The specific implementation method nine: the present embodiment differs from the first to eighth embodiments in that: the array buffer layer temperature described in step three was 500 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment
The detailed implementation mode is ten: the present embodiment differs from the first to ninth embodiments in that: the array buffer layer temperature described in step three was 400 ℃. The rest is the same as the first embodiment.
Embodiments three to ten all change the temperature, and the temperature change changes the forbidden band width.
The invention is described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is obvious that the implementation of the invention is not limited in the above manner, and it is within the scope of the invention to adopt various modifications of the inventive method concept and solution, or to apply the inventive concept and solution directly to other applications without modification.