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llf Noise in GaAs Filaments
Munecazu Tacano and Yoshinobu Sugiyama
Abstract-A typical 1 /f noise is excited in a GaAs filament
The
with the Hooge's noise parameter of about aH = 2 x
noise level increases in proportion to the square of the terminal
voltage, and decreases approximately in inverse proportion to
the total number of carriers within the device. A transition from
the typical 1 lfnoise characteristics to the diffusion noise characteristics of MESFET's was observed when the electric field
was increased above 1 kV/cm. The noise parameters were also
investigated as a function of the device width between 2 and
200 pm. Deep levels within the n-GaAs active layer and the high
electric field are the main factors of the nonideal l/fcharacteristics.
I. INTRODUCTION
HE GaAs metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors
(MESFET's) are widely used as low-noise microwave devices, but are reported to have rather large noise
levels at low frequencies [I]. Since the low-frequency
noise induces phase, FM, or AM noise in microwave circuits, the reduction of the low-frequency noise is enabled
through the investigation of its origins and mechanisms.
The frequency dependence of the drain noise in a GaAs
MESFET has been shown to vary a s f - l below 1 kHz and
f-'.5
above 1 kHz [2]-[4]; in ion-implanted resistors of
GaAs, it varies as f - ' . 'to f - ' [SI, and in MBE-grown
layers of GaAs, as f - ' . 'to f-"' [6]. This frequency dependence could be characterized as the diffusion noise observed in GaAs current limiters [7]. The Hooge's noise
parameter, a H ,was determined for a GaAs MESFET to
be about 2 X I O p 4 [8], and for a quarter-micrometer GaAs
Hall device made by focused ion-beam (FIB) implantation to be 4.5 x
[9]. The noise spectrum of both the
FIB-implanted device and that of heterostructure 2DEG
[IO] suggests that a pure 1 /f noise can be excited in a
thin-filament structure of GaAs.
Therefore, we have made filament devices of n-GaAs
and studied their low-frequency noise. A typical l / f
noise, without a large bulge between 1 and 10 Hz usually
observed at room temperature in a commercial GaAs
MESFET I1 I], is excited in these devices. A transition
from the typical 1 lfnoise characteristics to the diffusion
noise characteristics of MESFET's together with the exponential increase of a H was observed when the electric
field through the filament was increased above 1 kV/cm.
T
The noise parameters were also investigated as a function
of the filament width between 2 and 200 pm. Deep levels
within the n-GaAs active layer and the high electric field
through the device are the main factors to induce the nonideal 1 lfcharacteristics.
11. DEVICEFABRICATION
MEASUREMENTS
We made devices from two n-GaAs substrates grown
by a Varian MBE-360 system and a commercially available one grown by VPE. The substrates, contact metals,
and device dimensions are summarized in Table I. Epitaxial layers of n-GaAs 0.5 pm in thickness were grown
on Cr-doped semi-insulating GaAs wafers with Si doping
of 5.0 x 10l6 cmP3 in the same conditions as described
elsewhere [6]. Using standard integrated circuit processes
of photolithography, metal electrode lift-off, and etching,
these devices were fabricated with various lengths from 5
to 80 pm or various widths from 2 to 200 pm. The ohmic
contacts were made on the epitaxial n-GaAs layer by the
deposition of Sn/Ni/Au( 100/50/300 nm) or AuGe/Ni/
Au( 100/50/200 nm) followed by alloying at 450°C for 45
or 30 s. respectively, in flowing H2 gas. The SnAu contacts ha$ specific contact resistances of about 5.0 X l o p 4
Q * cm-.
Fig. 1 shows an overview of a prepared device of various lengths with the constant width of 1.4 pm. The current-voltage characteristics of each device were completely linear within the low electric field bias. The noise
was measured in a brass-shielded box at room temperature, and a bias dc current was supplied by batteries
through a 100-kQ resistor. The voltage noise across the
current terminals was amplified by a low-noise preamplifier. ITHACO 1201, and the output was fed to an ADVANTEST TR9404 spectrum analyzer. The analyzer was
controlled by a desktop computer, HP216. The smallest
detectable circuit noise of the setup was about - 162
dBV/&
between 10 Hz and 100 kHz. The spectrum
analyzer formed an average of each 2' noise data, and the
computer further averaged the data and subtracted the ac
line noise. The noise levels at I Hz and the factorials of
frequency were calculated using a least squares approximation of the data between 100 and 0.2 Hz.
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Manuscript received October 12. 1990: revised April I . 1991. The review of this paper was arranged by Associate Editor M . D. Feuer.
The authors are with the Electrotechnical Laboratory. Umerono 1-1-4.
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305. Japan.
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111. RESULTSA N D DISCUSSION
A. 1 /fNoise Churacteristics
The noise spectra of a filament device 10 pm in length
are shown for a variety of voltages in Fig. 2. The noise
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Fig. 4. Noise levels of devices with various lengths as a function of terminal voltage.
power level S,, decreases with frequency exactly at the
rates of f-' throughout the range from 0.1 Hz to 100
kHz. The noise levels increase as the square of the terminal voltage V .
Noise spectra are shown for a variety of device lengths
in Fig. 3 at a constant voltage of 1 V . The devices were
fabricated on the same substrate, and the total effective
number of carriers to excite the noise is proportional to
the device length. The noise level S,. decreases with increasing device length, that is, with an increase in the
total number of carriers.
Noise spectra of the devices with various lengths were
further measured as a function of the voltage, and noise
levels at 1 Hz were plotted as a function of the applied
voltage in Fig. 4, with the device length as a parameter.
It is evident in the figure that noise levels increase in proportion to the square of the terminal voltage V . These ex-
perimental results can thus be fully explained by Hooge's
fundamental relationship
where V is the voltage across the device, f and N are the
frequency and the total number of carriers, respectively,
and a H is the Hooge's noise parameter originally determined as aH = 2.0 x
[12].
The 1-Hz noise levels normalized at the terminal voltage of 1 V were plotted as a function of the total number
of carriers in Fig. 5 . The number of carriers was determined from the carrier concentration and the device volume. The levels decrease in inverse proportion to the total
number of carriers. Hooge's parameter derived from the
proportionality constant in Fig. 5 was about a H = 2.0 X
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Fig. 5. Noise lerelb at 1 H 7 and 1 V as a lunction of IL' and total carrier
number.
Hooge's equation ( I ) can be expressed. on the other
hand, in terms of the device parameters as [8].
S,, = a,qpV'/(fZL?)
(2)
where q is the carrier charge, p the mobility, L the device
length, and 1the current through the device, respectively.
The noise levels at 1 V and 1 Hz are also shown by open
circles in Fig. 5 for a variety of ZL', indicating linear decrease in proportion to about (/L2)-o.8.The deviation from
the theoretical estimation may be due to a contribution of
the finite contact resistance r ( . In the presence of r,, (2)
could be modified as
s,. = a , q p ~ ' ( ~+ 3 q p r , . ~ / ~ ' ) / ( f ~ ~ ' )(3)
and the apparent voltage noise level would increase with
the increasing total number of carriers. The contact
resistance of the individual device could not be determined in the present pattern, but estimated from the length
dependence of resistance as about 5 kQ. Since the carrier
concentration was designed rather thin in order to apply
the high electric field, large contact resistances were obtained with these devices. This might have caused the deviation from the (ZL') dependence.
The electron mobility was derived from the currentvoltage characteristics and the sample dimension as p =
0.29 m2/V s, and the noise parameter was a , = 2.0 x
IO-'. Since ( I ) and (2) are mathematically the same. the
parameter should agree within experimental error on the
sample dimension and the estimation of the mobility.
B. High Electric Field Churacteristics
The noise spectra of a filament device 40 pm in length
are shown for a variety of voltages in Fig. 6. The noise
power level S,. decreases with frequency exactly at the
rate o f f - ' throughout the range from 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz
in low electric fields below about 0.5 kV/cm (2 V), but
tends to decrease as f - ' in the electric fields above this
value. This tendency was commonly observed in GaAs
MESFET's in the current saturation region [4],and explained in terms of the deep levels within the epitaxial
layer.
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minal voltage in Fig. 7. The levels increase in proportion
to V' in low electric fields below 0.5 kV/cm with
Hooge's noise parameter of a, = 1.6 X W3,
but increase rapidly in the electric field above I kV/cm.
Current-voltage characteristics of the filament sample
are shown in Fig. 8, where the current saturation is seen
to start in the relevant high electric field. Since the carrier
concentration would not increase in the electric field
around 3 kV/cm, the decrease of the average carrier mobility causes current saturation. The relative mobility of
the sample was also plotted as a function of voltage in
Fig. 8.
Taking into account the mobility saturation in Fig. 8,
Hooge's parameters were calculated from (1) and (2)
shown by open and closed circles, respectively, in Fig.
7. In low electric fields, (1) gives Hooge's parameter of
1.6 x 10-j, and (2) of 5.7 x IOp3, agreeing quite well
with the original value of 2 x lo-'. It must be noted that
in the figure the parameter increases quite a bit in the high
electric field above 1 kV/cm.
The noise parameters of a quarter-micrometer GaAs filament [9] were also plotted in Fig. 7, indicating much
smaller values of a , = 4.5 x l o p h increasing at much
higher electric fields. Fig. 7 shows explicitly a considerable increase of the noise level and the corresponding
noise parameter.
A theory of the hot-electron l l ~ f n o i s ein n-GaAs has
been studied by Kleinpenning [ 131, who interpreted the
relative current noise s//z' [14] in terms of fluctuations
in the electron mobility. His theory also introduced the
relation S,, = r i S / , r,, being the dynamic resistance in the
nonlinear part of the I-Vcharacteristics. The low field and
differential resistances of our sample at 7 V (1.8 kV/cm)
were Ro = 19 kQ and r,/ = 54 kfl, respectively, and S,.
increased 29 dB above the linear relationship S,, = 2 X
10-'Vv'/(fN). The relative increase of the dynamic resistance from its low-field value was about 2.8 times, resulting in the increase of SI about 20 dB.
The normalized noise levels, S,,/ V' and S///2,together
with the current through the sample, were compared at the
same voltage in Fig. 9. We used a commercially available
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substrate with concentration of 2.8 X 10’’ ~ m - 6~times
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greater than that used in the previous experiments. S , , / V 2
showed a rapid increase above 12 V (3 kV/cm). Shorter
samples of the length between 5 and 30 pm were also
studied, and all showed rapid increase of S , , / V 2 above 3
kV/cm, corresponding to the threshold voltage for the
r - L transition [15]. In contrast to the rapid increase of
S t , / V 2 ,the current noise S,/Z2 increased slowly with bias
voltage. The relative increase of the dynamic resistance
was about 1 . 8 times at 17 V, introducing the expected
increase of S,/Z2 by an amount of 1 1 dB, whereas the
experiment gave the value of 21 dB. It must be noted that
the low-field Hooge noise parameter aH estimated from
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S,, was 1 x lop4 and that from SI was 2.3 X lop6, respectively.
The voltage noise S,, will represent the carrier number
fluctuation associated with the r - L transition, and the
current noise SI the mobility fluctuation.
C. Sample Width Dependence
Noise spectra are shown for a variety of device widths
in Fig. 10 at a constant voltage of 1 V . The noise levels
decrease approximately in inverse proportion to the frequency, although there are several bulges of the GR noise
caused by the deep levels in n-GaAs. Most of the GR
noise appeared at around 10 kHz, as shown by the plots
for 100 and 200 pm in the figure. The factorials over f are
about 1.2 for samples with deep levels. An ideal 1 /f characteristic was always observed, on the other hand, by
samples without deep levels.
The device length was kept constant as 10 pm, and the
electric field through the device was 1 kV/cm in each
case. The noise levels decrease with increasing sample
width, i.e., with increasing total number of carriers.
Hooge’s noise parameters aH of various widths were derived from ( 1 ) and plotted in Fig. l l . Hooge’s noise pato 3 x l o p 3in VPE samrameters ranged from 4 x
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Hooge’s noise parameters for various epitaxial devices
are plotted in Fig. 1 1 as a function of the total number of
carriers. These data were obtained recently in our group.
Data sets #1 and #2 correspond to the result of the present
experiments. The filamental devices made from MBEgrown substrates gave a Hooge’s noise parameter close to
2 X
and those from VPE-grown substrates about
1 x l o p 3on average. Data sets #3 and #4 correspond to
the TLM patterned devices of GaAlAs /GaAs two-dimensional electron gases [ 101 and ion-implanted InP layers
[16], respectively, #5 and #7 those of GaAs FET’s [SI,
[17], #6 those of HEMT [ l l ] . Hooge’s noise parameters
are indicated as #8 for GaAs quarter-micrometer filaments
and #9 for InP ones [ 181. The solid line indicates the noise
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3 ) Hooge’s noise parameter increased exponentially
with the electric field above 1 kV/cm, and a transition
from the typical ,f - I noise characteristics to the diffusion
noise characteristics of MESFET’s was observed. The
kink frequency from f - I to f - 2 characteristics was about
1 kHz.
4) The GR noise caused by the deep levels within the
n-GaAs active layer was observed mostly at about 25 Hz
and to a lesser degree at about 1 and 20-50 kHz in devices
with MBE-grown substrates, while mostly at 3-5 Hz and
to a lesser extent about 1 and 20 kHz with VPE substrates
at room temperature. Deep levels within the active layers
and the high electric field are the main factors of the nonideal f characteristics, and they enhance the equivalent
Hooge’s noise parameter. It must also be noted that the
transition from f
to f
characteristics is due to the
presence of GR noise.
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parameter originally proposed by Hooge, which seems
well confirmed in the filamental form of the present experiment.
Comparing the data set #I with #7 of n-GaAs or #2 with
#5 of GaAlAs/GaAs 2DEG, structures and surfaces as
well as contacts of devices still play an important role in
determining the noise parameter. It must also be pointed
out that there is no correlation between the total number
of carriers and Hooge’s parameter. As indicated in Fig.
1 1 , some of the recent GaAs FET’s and HEMT have far
smaller noise parameters; on the order of l o P 5and below.
We may now need a new relationship to explain all of
these 1 / f noise levels consistently [ 191.
A N D CONCLUSIONS
IV. DISCUSSION
We have studied low-frequency noise excited in n-GaAs
epitaxial layers for various device dimensions or contact
metals, and a typical 1 lfnoise is observed with Hooge’s
noise parameter of about aH= 2 X lop3. The noise level
increases in proportion to the square of the terminal voltage, and decreases in inverse proportion to the total number of carriers within the device. A transition from the
typical 1/ f noise characteristics to the diffusion noise
characteristics typical in MESFET’s was observed when
the electric field applied across the device was above
1 kV/cm.
Deep levels within the n-GaAs active layer and the high
electric field through the device are main factors in inducing the nonideal 1 /f characteristics with factorials
other than - 1.
Experimental results are summarized as follows.
1) The device made from the MBE-grown substrate to
a filament shape of 1.3 x 0.5 x ( 5 , 10, 20, 30, 40, 80)
pm had typicalf - characteristics with Hooge’s noise parameter of aH = 2 x l o P 3 . This must be compared to
f - 1 , 5 characteristics of TLM-shaped devices in the earlier
experiment.
2) The device made from the VPE-grown substrate
noise
with n- buffer thickness of 4 pm also had an f
characteristic with a Hooge’s noise parameter of 4 x
I O P 4 < aH < 3 X l o P 3 .These values are between those
obtained in the device with MBE-grown substrates and
those in commercial FET’s or FIB-implanted filaments.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to thank the referee who suggested the theoretical analysis of hot-electron 1 / f noise
by Kleinpenning.
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Munecazu Tacano was born in Tokyo. Japan, in
1940. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees,
both from Yokohama National University i n 1964
and 1966, respectively. and the Ph.D. degree in
applied physics from the University of Tokyo in
1982.
In 1966. he joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ibaraki, Japan. where he has been working
on compound semiconductor physics and devices.
He was a Research Associate at the University of
Washington during 1972- 1973 working on semi-
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Association for Future Electron Devices during 1988- 1990.
Dr. Tacano is a member of the Applied Physics Society of Japan, and
the IEE of Japan
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Yoshinobu Sugiyama was born in Gifu, Japan,
in 1945. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees
in fine measurement engineering from the Nagoya
Institute of Technology in 1968 and 1970, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in
1984.
In 1970, he joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Tokyo. Japan. He has been working on
semiconductor magnetic sensing devices and superconductor microwave
sensing devices. and was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California. Berkeley, during 198 I - 1982. His current research interests include
quantum devices with fine heterostructure semiconductors for intelligent
sensing.
Dr. Sugiyama is a member of the Applied Physics Society of Japan, the
IEE of Japan, and the IEICE of Japan.