Effects of annealing temperature and amount of tin on resistance of Al-Sn-Ni ohmic contact on N-type GaAs substrate
Abstract
The Al-Sn-Ni alloy ohmic contact for N-type GaAs were studied and optimized. A simple method of metal deposition using the Thermal Vacuum Evaporator was utilized. In this paper, the effect of varying amount of Sn to be deposited on GaAs and the annealing temperature for the alloy was reported. IV measurement of the devices showed a straightline IV characteristics and that high Sn content and high annealing temperature yields low resistance readings. Average contact resistance at this optimum setting is 96.97 Ω.