Techniques towards GaN power transistors with improved high voltage dynamic switching properties
- 1 December 2013
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 6.1.1-6.1.4
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iedm.2013.6724571
Abstract
Dynamic switching limitations of GaN power devices are analyzed and techniques towards improving fast high voltage switching are proposed and verified experimentally with an emphasis on optimized epitaxial buffer designs. Normally-off and normally-on GaN transistors are presented; depending on specific technology the dynamic on-state resistance increase reduces to a factor of 2.5 for 500 V switching from off-state drain bias. Normally-off transistors using p-GaN gate technology demonstrated a R on xQ g product of 0.4 ΩnC for switching at 400 V drain bias.Keywords
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