The effect of surface passivation on the microwave characteristics of undoped AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
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- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Electron Device Letters
- Vol. 21 (6), 268-270
- https://doi.org/10.1109/55.843146
Abstract
Surface passivation of undoped AlGaN/CaN HEMT's reduces or eliminates the surface effects responsible for limiting both the RF current and breakdown voltages of the devices. Power measurements on a 2/spl times/125/spl times/0.5 /spl mu/m AlGaN/GaN sapphire based HEMT demonstrate an increase in 4 GHz saturated output power from 1.0 W/mm [36% peak power-added efficiency (PAE)] to 2.0 W/mm (46% peak PAE) with 15 V applied to the drain in each case. Breakdown measurement data show a 25% average increase in breakdown voltage for 0.5 /spl mu/m gate length HEMT's on the same wafer. Finally, 4 GHz power sweep data for a 2/spl times/75/spl times/0.4 /spl mu/m AlGaN/GaN HEMT on sapphire processed using the Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ passivation layer produced 4.0 W/mm saturated output power at 41% PAE (25 V drain bias). This result represents the highest reported microwave power density for undoped sapphire substrated AlGaN/GaN HEMT's.Keywords
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