• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.645-651
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• 1993

The growth of semi-insulating(SI) high resistant undoped GaAs epilayer has been studied to solve the problems ocurring when GaAs IC is fabricated by the widely used ion implantation directly into the SI GaAs substrate. The EPD ditribution of the SI substrates has been examined, and the suitability of the buffer layers grown by MOCVD and MBE, respectively, has been tested for IC fabrication through leakage current measurement. IJngated FET has been fabricated on the SI epilayer and leakage current through the buffer layer has been measured. In the case of MOCVD grown 1$\mu\textrm{m}$-thick buffer layer, the leakage current is as small as about 270nA/mm, and this value does not affect the pinch-off of FET. In this case, the epilayer quality is affected by the substrate defects because the leakage current distribution is coincided with the EPD distribution of the SI substrate. The 2$\mu\textrm{m}$-thick buffer layer grown by MBE, however, has the better quality, and shows the lower leakage current(40nA/mrn) and higher uniformity.