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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2017
Hrl Laboratories, Llc, Malibu, CA (US);
Rongming Chu, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Yu Cao, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
A III-nitride power handling device and the process of making the III-nitride power handling device are disclosed that use digital alloys as back barrier layer to mitigate the strain due to lattice mismatch between the channel layer and the back barrier layer and to provide increased channel conductivity. An embodiment discloses a GaN transistor using a superlattice binary digital alloy as back barrier comprising alternative layers of AlN and GaN. Other embodiments include using superlattice structures with layers of GaN and AlGaN as well as structures using AlGaN/AlGaN stackups that have different Aluminum concentrations. The disclosed device has substantially increased channel conductivity compared to traditional analog alloy back barrier devices.