Scaling of GaN HEMTs and Schottky Diodes for Submillimeter-Wave MMIC Applications
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- 3 July 2013
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
- Vol. 60 (10), 2982-2996
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ted.2013.2268160
Abstract
In this paper, we report state-of-the-art high frequency performance of GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and Schottky diodes achieved through innovative device scaling technologies such as vertically scaled enhancement and depletion mode (E/D mode) AlN/GaN/AlGaN double-heterojunction HEMT epitaxial structures, a low-resistance n+-GaN/2DEG ohmic contact regrown by MBE, a manufacturable 20-nm symmetric and asymmetric self-aligned-gate process, and a lateral metal/2DEG Schottky contact. As a result of proportional scaling of intrinsic and parasitic delays, an ultrahigh fT exceeding 450 GHz (with a simultaneous fmax of 440 GHz) and a fmax close to 600 GHz (with a simultaneous fT of 310 GHz) are obtained in deeply scaled GaN HEMTs while maintaining superior Johnson figure of merit. Because of their extremely low on-resistance and high gain at low drain voltages, the devices exhibited excellent noise performance at low power. 501-stage direct-coupled field-effect transistor logic ring oscillator circuits are successfully fabricated with high yield and high uniformity, demonstrating the feasibility of GaN-based E/D-mode integrated circuits with transistors. Furthermore, self-aligned GaN Schottky diodes with a lateral metal/2DEG Schottky contact and a 2DEG/ n+-GaN ohmic contact exhibited RC-limited cutoff frequencies of up to 2.0 THz.Keywords
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