The band alignments of sputtered ZrO2, Al2O3 and MgO on GaN have been measured experimentally using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The valence band offsets (±0.2 eV) for ZrO2, Al2O3 and MgO on GaN using Kraut’s method and charge-corrected XPS core levels were found to be 0.4 eV, 1.1 eV and 1.2 eV with corresponding conduction band offsets (±0.2 eV) of 1.3 eV, 2.0 eV and 2.8 eV, respectively. The electrical characterization of metal insulator semiconductor (MIS)-capacitors with different gate dielectrics (ZrO2, Al2O3 and MgO) has been performed as well. The current density of the MIS-capacitors with gate dielectrics MgO and Al2O3 at a positive bias of 1 V show lower leakage currents of 3.2 × 10−6 A cm−2 and 5.3 × 10−6 A cm−2 respectively, whereas, the MIS-capacitors with ZrO2 gate dielectric have the highest leakage current of 6.2 × 10−4 A cm−2 at 1 V.
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