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Temperature-Dependent X-Ray Study of Alloyed Gold Metallization Contacts On In1–xGaxAsyP1–y/Inp Layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

J. Vandenberg
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, (U.S.A.)
H. Temkin
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, (U.S.A.)
R. A. Hamm
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, (U.S.A.)
M. A. Diguiseppe
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, (U.S.A.)
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Gold metallization for ohmic contacts is extensively used for the fabrication of InP/In1−xGaxAsyPn1−y light-emitting and microwave devices. While the electrical properties of Au/InP and Au/In1−xGaxAsyPn1−y have been the subject of many investigations, relatively little is known about the metallurgy of contact formation and solid state reactions occurring during high temperature alloying and the subsequent device processing steps. Therefore a temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction study on Au–Inn1−xGaxAsyPn1−y interface reactions was made as a function of composition x, y.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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