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FINAL REPORT /ti-FEBRUARY 1, 1985 - JUNE 30, 1986
(NASA GRANT NAG5-390)
( fNASA-CR-177178) A CLASS OF OPTICALLY. N86-28731CCNTBOLLED MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES FinalReport, 1 Feb. 1965 - 30 Jun. J986 (HowardUniv.) 36 p HC A03/HJ 1.01 CSCL 20F Dnclas
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A CLASS OF OPTICALLY CONTROLLEDMILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES
PREPARED AND SUBMITTEDBY J
DR. RAJ CHOWDHARYELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
HOWARD UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON, D.C.
JULY, 1986
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS PAGE
ABSTRACT 1
I. INTRODUCTION 3
II. PROGRESS MADE AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY 6
A. THE TEST SETUP 6B. THE SHEET RESISTANCE DEVICE 13C. THE SCHOTTKY-BARRIER DIODE 21D. THE PIN DIODE 27
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A B S T R A C T
This is the f inal report for the year s tar t ing
Februa ry 1, 1985 and e n d i n g June 30, 1986. This is the
second phase of research at, Howard U n i v e r s i t y en t i t l ed
"A Class of Optically Controlled Millimeter Wave
Devices" . These dev ices are use fu l at mi l l ime te r wave
f r equenc i e s as swi tches , m i x e r s , phase s h i f t e r s , e tc .
Invest igat ion d u r i n g this period is m a i n l y concen-
trated on three specif ic dev ices : the sheet res is tance
dev ice , the Schot tky-barr ier d iode and the PIN d iode .
Several sheet res is tance devices have been fabri-
cated and tested. Based on the encourag ing results
from these devices , a mask is designed and sent to a
vendor and is expected to be received v e r y soon.
A set of masks for f a b r i c a t i n g t r anspa ren t ca thode
Schot tky-bar r ie r d iodes has been d e s i g n e d . These masks
are given to NASA Goddard Space Fl ight Center for
fabr ica t ion of the d iodes . These diodes may be avail-
able for testing by the end of July 1986.
A u n i q u e mask set is des igned to f ab r i ca t e PIN di-
odes wi th t r a n s p a r e n t e lec t rodes . W i t h slight
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m o d i f i c a t i o n s , the same m a s k set also can be used to
fabr ica te other dev ices , such as the MESFET and the
IMPATT d iode . We are in the process of a d d i n g these
m o d i f i c a t i o n s .
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I . I N T R O D U C T I O N
This is the con t inu ing e f for t in es tabl ishing a
class of opt ica l ly control led solid state devices that
can be used in the mi l l imete r wave c i r cu i t s as
swi tches , m i x e r s , phase sh i f t e r s , etc. Some of the
resul ts obta ined in this e f f o r t are presented in this
repor t .
Conceptual ly it is possible to fabr ica te devices
that respond well to light i l luminat ion at mi l l imeter
wave f requency r ange . H o w e v e r , the question is how
well can these devices per form under practical situa-
tions. If we can fabr ica te useful devices wi th
t r anspa ren t electrodes, then we will have created a new
class of gener ic mi l l imeter wave dev ices . As a r e su l t ,
we shall have established new techniques and
technologies.
The opt ica l ly cont ro l lable solid state devices may
be s imple photoconductors that may have l ight to da rk
res is tance of 20 ohms to 10 megohms. They may also be
j u n c t i o n , m u l t i - l a y e r e d , deplet ion layered and field
ef fec t semiconductor d e v i c e s , whose l ight sens i t ive
p r o p e r t y is as dep ic ted in F igure 1. I l lus t ra ted in
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th i s f i g u r e are the d a r k and l ight cha rac te r i s t i c s of a
sil icon PIN photo d iode . When l ight hi ts the I- layer ,
the reverse current increases d ras t i ca l ly . When the
change in slope occurs , it is i n d i c a t i v e that there is
a change in mic rowave res is tance . This property can be
used in crea t ing var ious usefu l dev ices , such as
swi tches , m o d u l a t o r s , phase sh i f t e r s , l im i t e r s , etc.
In a junc t ion dev ice , if one of the electrodes is
i l l u m i n a t e d , it is conceivable that the i l lumina ted
electrode can have an extended conduc t ing region that
p ro t rudes into the deple t ion reg ion . If the device is
a j u n c t i o n d iode , it will behave like a light modu la t ed
var actor .
If the device is a MOSFET, an i l l umina ted gate will
conve r t the FET to al low its ga in to be light
cont ro l lab le .
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I I . PROGRESS M A D E AT H O W A R D U N I V E R S I T Y
The progress made at Howard U n i v e r s i t y and some of
the resul ts obta ined d u r i n g the period F e b r u a r y 1, 1985
and June 30, 1986 are presented in this chap te r . The
presen ta t ion is given under the fo l lowing head ings :
A. The Test setup
B. The Sheet Resistance Device
C. The Schottky-Barrier Diode
D. The PIN Diode
A. The Test Setup
A mic rowave exper imenta l test setup is establ ished
to test the devices . One can measure
i) the isolation and insert ion losses and
ii) the r e t u r n loss
using this se tup .
i) The isolat ion and the insert ion losses
The isolation loss and the insert ion loss of a
micros t r ip switch are measured using the setup
shown in F igure 2 . For e x a m p l e , F igu re 3 shows a
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mic ros t r i p c i r c u i t to moun t a Schot tky-barr ier di-
ode type HP5082-2779. A c t u a l l y , the d iode acts as
the switch. D i f f e r e n t mic ros t r ip c i rcui ts must be
designed for mount ing d i f f e r e n t devices . This cir-
cui t , wi th the d e v i c e ' m o u n t e d , is placed in a spe-
cially designed x-band wavegu ide and connected to
the system as shown in F igure 2 . The c i rcu la to r
d ive r t s any ref lected power from the m i c r o s t r i p
switch to the d u m m y load , thus p reven t ing the
generator ( B W O ) from burn ing out due to the re-
flected power .
The m i c r o w a v e power is swept from 8 GHz to
12.4 G H z . In this setup, no tuner is used because ,
the tuner cannot be adjusted to match the micro-
strip switch as the f r e q u e n c y is swept .
The inser t ion loss is measured wi th the d iode
forward biased and the isolat ion loss is measured
wi th the d iode reverse b i a s e d . First the ou tpu t
power (in dB) is measured wi th no bias on the di-
ode. This is the r e f e r ence power level. Then a
fo rward bias is applied to the device and the out-
put power is m e a s u r e d . The d i f f e r e n c e , in dB,
between these two read ings is the inser t ion loss.
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N e x t , a reverse b ias is appl ied to the dev ice and
the ou tpu t power is m e a s u r e d . The d i f f e r e n c e
between this r ead ing and the r e fe rence power gives
the isolat ion loss.
The oscillograms of the insertion loss and the
isolation loss are shown in Figure 4. From these
osc i l lograms, the specif ic f r e q u e n c y a t which m a x i -
mum swi tching a t t enua t ion occurred is obta ined as
11.5 G H z . Once this f r e q u e n c y is spec i f i ed , the
tuner is inserted between the c i rcu la tor and the
raicrostrip switch to obtain m a x i m u m power t r ans f e r .
In this e x p e r i m e n t , the a t tenua t ion is 10 dB.
This experimental setup will be used for test-
ing our own t ransparent cathode Schot tky-barr ier
diodes which are being fabr ica ted at N A S A , Goddard
Space Flight Cen te r . W i t h these opt ica l ly con-
trolled d iodes , there is no need for the external
bias ing; light from the He-Ne laser will be used to
control the d iode f u n c t i o n .
ii) The re tu rn loss
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by m e a s u r i n g the r e t u r n loss. F i g u r e s shows the
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se tup for this purpose . In this e x p e r i m e n t , a set
of s t anda rds is established by m e a s u r i n g the re-
flected powers of a set of known loads , such as a
short , 50 ohms and a 12 dB a t t enua to r . The short
gives a m e a s u r e of the total reflected power . W i t h
the 50 ohm load at the' output e n d , the mic roswi tch
is connected in the c i rcu i t . The ref lected power
is m e a s u r e d . The d i f f e r e n c e between this r ead ing
and the r ead ing with the short g ives the r e tu rn
loss in dB. By using the Smith Cha r t , the r e tu rn
loss values can be changed into SWR va lues .
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f r equenc i e s , the specific f requency at which min i -
mum SWR occurs can be ob ta ined . The m i n i m u m SWR in
this expe r imen t occurs at 11.9 G H z . Thus, the
min imum SWR and m a x i u m u m at tenuation occurred at
about the same f r equency in this e x p e r i m e n t ; the
actual f r equenc ie s be ing 11 .9 and 11.5 G H z ,
r espec t ive ly .
B. The Sheet Resistance Device
This dev ice was called the bu lk device in the past
w o r k . However , since the inves t iga t ion is concerned
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wi th the f low of su r f ace c u r r e n t , which is a f u n c t i o n
of the res i s tance of the d e v i c e , the name 'sheet resis-
tance device1 seems to be more app rop r i a t e . This
device is s imply a piece of doped (or undoped) GaAs
mater ia l of width W with two gold-germanium plated
electrodes on either side. The w i d t h , W, can v a r y f rom
a few mi l l imeters to half a mic romete r . This device is
mounted on a piece of plain glass plate whose ends are
metallized and bonded with a luminum foi l . Gold wires
are connected between the a luminum foil on glass and
the gold-germanium electrodes on the device ( F i g u r e s ) .
The a luminum bonded ends of the glass plate act as ex-
ternal connectors for the dev ice .
A set of four sur face devices was tested in the
m i c r o w a v e lab at Howard U n i v e r s i t y . The wid ths of win-
dows for these devices are 2.5 mm, 1.27 mm, 1.0 mm and
0.5 mm. The mater ia l is in t r ins ic GaAs . These w i n d o w
wid ths are ve ry large for our purpose. However , the
behav io r of these exper imenta l devices g a v e us an ex-
cellent ind ica t ion of how the device responds to light
as the w i d t h of the window is va r i ed . As expec ted , it
became more light sensi t ive as the window became
smaller . Table 1 shows the exper imen ta l va lues of the
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four dev ices and F igure 7 gives their oscilloscope pic-
tu re . F igure 8 is a plot of the average va lues taken
from Table 1. This graph would have been more accurate
if we had more points near the ' k n e e ' of the c u r v e .
Never the less , the general trend of the response is ve ry
clear . One may conclude that with micron size w i n d o w s ,
the light response will be excellent.
— — H o w e v e r , one word of c au t ion . As the w i n d o w be-
comes na r rower , one may expect a capac i t ive e f f ec t in
addition to the resistive e f fec t . The resistance de-
creases while the capaci tance increases. Thus , the
device behaves as an RC ci rcui t , where R is a funct ion
of the sheet resis tance. At present , we do not have an
idea of how the capaci tance will come into play in the
response. The f inal result will reveal this fac t .
A mask is des igned (F igure 9 ) to fabr ica te the sur-
face devices wi th window sizes s tar t ing from 64/^m down
to 0.5 J^m. This is sent to a vendor for mask m a k i n g .
Fabr ica t ion of these devices is f a i r l y easy. The mask
may be received by the end o f - J u l y , 1986.
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(a) window width 25mm (b) window width 1.27mm
(c) window width 1mm (d) window width 0.5mm
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TABLE 1
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2.5 123
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C. The Schot tky-Barr ier Diode
A un ique s t ruc ture for the t ransparent cathode
Schottky-barrier diode is d e s i g n e d . The Schottky-
barr ier metal consists o f ' a n u l t ra thin layer of a
high-work f u n c t i o n and high b u l k res is t iv i ty metal such
as nickel that acts as a glue covered by a second metal
such as si lver, copper or gold. A detailed descr ipt ion
of the procedure in fabr ica t ing the GaAs Schottky-
barrier diodes is given below. Figure lorepresents the
var ious stages of this procedure .
Start ing with a semi- insula t ing GaAs substrate (1)
and using mask 1 combined with pho to l i t hography , etch a
pocket (2) into the substrate . Deposit a h igh ly doped
n-layer (3) via l iquid phase ep i t axy un t i l an excess
layer of n+ ga l l ium arsenide is f o r m e d . Chemical ly
polish the surface us ing sodium hydroch lor i t e unt i l the
n+ layer is removed from the su r f ace l eav ing behind a
pocket of n+ at the sur face . Deposit a layer of n- type
gal l ium arsenide (4) on top of the n+ regions and the
exposed semi- insulator to form an n-n+ s t ruc ture .
Etch the n-layer unt i l the stained n+ regions of gold
g e r m a n i u m eutectic alloy (5) is evapora ted us ing an E-
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beam vacuum system and etch to have the mesa coated
wi th gold. The gold is remasked and the cathode open-
ing ( 6 ) , is made exposing the n-region ( 4 ) . The gold
g e r m a n i u m is then alloyed in and electro plated to two
skin depths . Us ing the l i f t -of f t e c h n i q u e , the sand-
wich l aye r , u s ing ( 7 ) , i s deposited on the n-layer (4)
in the cathode opening ( 6 ) . A g a i n , us ing the l i f t -o f f
wi th mask 6, the ohmic contact (8) is made to the
t ransparen t cathode ( 7 ) . Mask 7 is applied and the
ohmic contact (8) is electroplated to yield the f ina l
device shown in the f low d i ag ram in F igure 10.
Silicon technology o f f e r s a simpler approach be-
cause ox ide masking and d i f f u s i o n are ava i lab le . A
layer of n-type silicon is grown on sapphi re single
crystal in the 100 or ien ta t ion . Oxide is formed and
holes opened up for n+ packets forced by the d i f f u s i o n
of arsenic or an t imony . These are used in the pocket
because their d i f f u s i o n rate is much slower than that
of phosphorus . The ox ide is removed and a layer of
phosphorus doped silicon is grown over the pockets.
The ohmic contact cathode and cathodic contact are
again formed by the same technique. Separat ion of in-
d i v i d u a l devices is done by a silicon etch, leaving
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b e h i n d a dev ice on s apph i r e . Because of the lower
electron m o b i l i t y in s i l icon, these dev ices can be used
at lower f requencies than the ga l l ium arsenide dev ices .
In the case of i n d i u m a n t i m o n i d e , the technology
used is the same as that for ga l l ium arsenide, wi th one
va r i a t ion . Since ind ium an t imonide is used pr imar i ly
in the in f r a red reg ion , the cathode mater ia l would be
s i l icon, a metal l ic su r face t ransparent to in f ra red
l ight .
When the ga l l ium arsenide Schottky-barr ier diode is
placed in a waveguide and biased in the reverse direc-
tion such that the space charge region is depleted of
ca r r i e r s , the m i c r o w a v e s pass th rough the d iode because
it is acting as an insulator . When i l luminated by
light via fiber opt ics , hole electron pairs are gener-
ated in the space charge region and the reverse cu r r en t
increases . N o w , the mic rowaves see a short c i rcu i t and
cannot pass t h rough to the rece iver . Thus , the t ime
in terva l that is created by the l ight could be con-
sidered as a delay and a photo, signal is essentially
act ing as a delay l ine . The light itself can be
dropped or modula ted so that it can act as a m a t h e m a t i -
cal f u n c t i o n on the m i c r o w a v e s .
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The chips and the mask sets are g iven to Mr. Andre
Burgess at Goddard Space Fl ight Center (GSFC) to fabr i -
cate the d iodes . Mr. H a r r y Myers at GSFC k i n d l y agreed
to cut the f ina l wafers into i n d i v i d u a l d iodes . We
thank these two gentlemen . and Dr. George Alcorn for
their va luab le help in thi's m a t t e r .
The Schottky-barr ier devices which are be ing fabri-
cated at present may not be the opt imum ones because this
is our f irst at tempt on these devices . These will
be tested first on the mic ros t r i p c i rcu i t and then in a
w a v e g u i d e . This ini t ial explorat ion will g ive us a
good idea as to how the devices may be improved in fu-
tu re . Based on these results we will model and des ign
mask sets for the improved devices .
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SEMI
Mask 1
PhotolithEtch
1 SEMI
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SEMI
Chemical.
Polish
Epitaxy
Mask 2Photomask
Electroplate Mask 3
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Cathode Open-ing etch
Top view
Figure 10 : Flow diagram of GaAs Schottky-BarrierDiode Fabrication
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Mask 5VAC Dep.
Lift Off
Top View
Mask 7Electro Plat
Photo Resist
Completed Device
Figure 10 Continued
Mask 5
VAC. DEP
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D. The PIN Diode
The interest in the PIN diode was created by the
encourag ing expe r imen ta l results obta ined wi th a com-
mercia l device ( E a l i n g photo PIN 35-7194), which re-
sponded to light f a i r l y well and per formed a swi tching
act ion at 13.9 G H Z . The exper imenta l set up for this
is shown in Figure 11. The d iode is i l l umina ted by re-
flected light from a He-Ne laser. The ref lector is
necessary so that the diode may not bu rn out due to the
intensi ty of the d i rec t laser l ight . The diode is
mounted in a specially designed w a v e g u i d e . The cir-
culator allows both light and m i c r o w a v e signals to
reach the same side of the d iode . The tuner is used to
m a x i m i z e the mic rowave transmitted power.
The bias vol tage is kept constant and the f r e q u e n c y
is var ied to d e t e r m i n e the f r equency at which m a x i m u m
a t tenua t ion is ob t a ined . This is d e t e r m i n e d to be 1 3 - 9
G H Z . Then, this f requency is kept cons tant and the
bias vol tage is va r i ed . The da rk cur ren t and the light
cu r r en t are measured and the a t tenuat ion in dB is cal-
culated for each bias voltage. The resul ts are shown
in Table 2. The d a r k and light cu r ren t s for the d iode
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are shown in F igure 12. It is obvious from Table 2
that m a x i m u m a t t enua t ion is ob ta ined near 0 .5V f o r w a r d
bias . However , it is in t e res t ing to see from this
table that a m u c h larger a t t en tua t ion ( 0 . 9 d B ) is ob-
tained when the d iode is not b iased . We are inves-
tigating this process further to unders tand the physi-
cal pr inciple invo lved . We have des igned a u n i q u e mask
to fabr icate the PIN diodes w i th t r anspa ren t elec-
trodes. We a f fec t iona te ly call this the "Kidney Bean"
because of its c o n f i g u r a t i o n . An examina t ion of this
Mask (F igure 13 ) demonstrates how the d is tance between
the P+ and n+ layers can be var ied and the exact dis-
tance for opt imum performance at a given f requency can
be obtained. The masks are designed to increase the I-
layer wid th by a micron-by-micron stepping system,
s tar t ing with one mic ron and going up to 50 mic rons .
The calculated des ign parameters for the G a A s ' P T T M and
are given in Table 3«
We bel ieve that this same mask can be used to
fabr ica te other dev ices , such as the MESFET and the
IMPATT d iodes . However , we will have to use addi t ional
masks for these devices . For e x a m p l e , we need an addi-
tional mask for the channel and the gate for the MESFET
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and the masks for the v a r i a t i o n of concen t r a t i on steps
in IMPATT.
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TABLE 2
ORIGINAL PASS* ISOF POOR QUALITY
Bias Voltage(v)
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
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-5.0
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0.0
0.0
0.0
0.005
0.065
0. 320
. 0.747
1.265
1.809
0. 0
0. 0
0.0
Light Current(mA)
-1.53
-1.525
-1.43
-1.065
-0.610
-0.073
9,486 .
1.065
1.67
-1.53
-1.53
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0.025
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0.175
0.40
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0.575
0.525
0.45
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