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3 It FINAL REPORT /ti- FEBRUARY 1, 1985 - JUNE 30, 1986 (NASA GRANT NAG5-390) ( fNASA-CR-177178) A CLASS OF OPTICALLY. N86-28731 CCNTBOLLED MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES Final Report, 1 Feb. 1965 - 30 Jun. J986 (Howard Univ.) 36 p HC A03/HJ 1.01 CSCL 20F Dnclas G3/74 43479 V .._. - - - - -- - A CLASS OF OPTICALLY CONTROLLED MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES PREPARED AND SUBMITTED BY J DR. RAJ CHOWDHARY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. JULY, 1986 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19860019259 2020-04-10T09:23:12+00:00Z

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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

G3/74 43479V .._. - - - - -- -

A CLASS OF OPTICALLY CONTROLLEDMILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES

PREPARED AND SUBMITTEDBY J

DR. RAJ CHOWDHARYELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

HOWARD UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON, D.C.

JULY, 1986

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19860019259 2020-04-10T09:23:12+00:00Z

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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

The SWR of the d iode c i rcui t can be ca lcula ted

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 .

By repea t ing this process for d i f f e r e n t

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

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TABLE 1

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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

Liquid Phas>•

EPl

N +

SEMI

Chemical.

Polish

Epitaxy

Mask 2Photomask

Electroplate Mask 3

Etch

[".

I 3_.

1

Mask 4-

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

-1.0 •

-5.0

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Dark Current(mA)

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

-1.53

Attenuatio(dB)

0.025

0.05 •

0.175

0.40

0.575

0.575

0.525

0.45

0.4

-

-• -

no bias open circuit 0.9

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ORIGINAL PAGE !SOF POOR QUALITY

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PIN Photo Diode

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