Raytheon Company

Amanda Kerr

Brian D Schultz

William E Hoke

Kiuchul Hwang

Theodore D Kennedy

A method includes providing a single crystal substrate having a buffer layer on a surface of the substrate. The buffer layer provides a transition between the crystallographic lattice structure of the substrate and the crystallographic lattice structure of the semiconductor layer and has its resistivity increased by ion implanting a dopant into the buffer layer; and forming semiconductor layer on the ion implanted buffer layer. The semiconductor layer may be a wide bandgap semiconductor layer having a high electron mobility transistors formed therein.

Semiconductor material growth of a high resistivity nitride buffer layer using ion implantation

A structure having: a nucleation layer; and a Group III-Nitride structure disposed on a surface of the nucleation layer, the Group III-Nitride structure comprising a plurality of pairs of stacked Group III-Nitride layers, each one of the pairs of layers having a lower layer having a 3D growth structure and each one of the upper one of the pairs of layers having a 2D growth structure. Each one of the lower layers at completion has a surface roughness greater than a surface roughness at completion of an upper one of the pair of layers. Interfaces between each one of the upper layers and each one of the lower layers of the plurality of pairs of stacked Group III-Nitride layers have crystallographic dislocation combinations and/or annihilations therein.

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