High-performance E-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN high electron-mobility transistors have been fabricated with a gate length of 160 nm. The use of gate recess combined with a fluorine-based surface treatment under the gate produced devices with a threshold voltage of +0.1 V. The combination of very high transconductance (> 400 mS/mm) and low gate leakage allows unprecedented output current levels in excess of 1.2 A/mm. The small signal performance of these enhancement-mode devices shows a record current cutoff frequency (f/sub T/) of 85 GHz and a power gain cutoff frequency (f/sub max/) of 150 GHz.     

AlGaN/GaN共栅共源HEMTs器件

研究了蓝宝石衬底AlGaN／GaN共栅共源器件的特性。该器件包括栅长0．8μm共源器件与栅长1μm的共栅器件。研究表明,共栅共源器件的第二栅压对的器件饱和电流与跨导有明显的调制作用,容易实现功率增益控制。与共源器件相比,共栅共源器件在微波特性上fT大约9GHz,比共源器件稍小,但是具有较低的反馈,显著增加的功率资用增益及较高的端口阻抗,与共源器件相比,稳定性更好,可以避免振荡的产生,结合GaN的高功率特性GaN共栅共源器件非常适合微波频段宽频大功率领域的应用。     

Preparation and Properties of AlGaN/AIN/GaN HEMTs with Compositionally Step-Graded AIGaN Barrier Layer

：A1GaN/AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structures with compositionally step-graded AIGaN barrier layer were grown on sapphire substrates by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition.High crystal quality and good sur‘ face morphology of the HEMT structures are confirmed by triple.crystal X-ray diffraction(TCXRD)and atomic force microscopy(AFM)measurements.The full width at half maximum of the GaN(0002)peak iS 4.567 from the rocking curve. AFM measurements reveal a smooth A1GaN surface with a root-mean-square roughness of 0.159nm for a scan area of 5um× 5tLm.Pendell6sung fringes are observed beside AIGaN(0002)diffraction peaks,indicating good crystalline quality and a coherent interface.     

凹栅槽AlGaN/GaN HEMTs器件退火处理效应

研究了如何减小等离子体干法刻蚀导致的大肖特基漏电.用X射线光电能谱(XPS)分析刻蚀前后的AlGaN表面,发现刻蚀后AlGaN表面出现了N窄位,导致肖特基栅电流偏离热电子散射模型,N空位做为一种缺陷使得肖特基结的隧穿几率增大,反向漏电增大,肖特基势垒降低.介绍了一种AlGaN/GaN HEMTs器件退火处理方法,优化退火条件为400℃,Nz氛围退火10min.退火后,栅金属中的Ni与Ga原子反应从而减少N空穴造成的缺陷,器件肖特基反向漏电减小三个量级,正向开启电压升高,理想因子从3.07降低到了2.08.     

凹栅槽AlGaN/GaN HEMTs器件退火处理效应

研究了如何减小等离子体干法刻蚀导致的大肖特基漏电. 用X射线光电能谱（XPS）分析刻蚀前后的AlGaN表面,发现刻蚀后AlGaN表面出现了N空位,导致肖特基栅电流偏离热电子散射模型,N空位做为一种缺陷使得肖特基结的隧穿几率增大,反向漏电增大,肖特基势垒降低. 介绍了一种AlGaN/GaN HEMTs器件退火处理方法,优化退火条件为400℃, N2氛围退火10min. 退火后,栅金属中的Ni与Ga原子反应从而减少N空穴造成的缺陷,器件肖特基反向漏电减小三个量级,正向开启电压升高,理想因子从3.07降低到了2.08.     

Investigation of High-Electric-Field Degradation Effects in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

High-electric-field degradation phenomena are investigated in GaN-capped AlGaN/GaN HEMTs by comparing experimental data with numerical device simulations. Under power- and OFF-state conditions, 150-h DC stresses were carried out. Degradation effects characterizing both stress experiments were as follows: a drop in the dc drain current, the amplification of gate-lag effects, and a decrease in the reverse gate leakage current. Numerical simulations indicate that the simultaneous generation of surface (and/or barrier) and buffer traps can account for all of the aforementioned degradation modes. Experiments also showed that the power-state stress induced a drop in the transconductance at high gate-source voltages only, whereas the OFF-state stress led to a uniform transconductance drop over the entire gate-source-voltage range. This behavior can be reproduced by simulations provided that, under the power-state stress, traps are assumed to accumulate over a wide region extending laterally from the gate edge toward the drain contact, whereas, under the OFF-state stress, trap generation is supposed to take place in a narrower portion of the drain-access region close to the gate edge and to be accompanied by a significant degradation of the channel transport parameters.     

Enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on silicon substrate

High-performance enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs (E-HEMTs) were demonstrated with samples grown on a low-cost silicon substrate for the first time. The fabrication process is based on a fluoride-based plasma treatment of the gate region and postgate annealing at 450 /spl deg/C. The fabricated E-HEMTs have nearly the same peak transconductance (G/sub m/) and cutoff frequencies as the conventional depletion-mode HEMTs fabricated on the same wafer, suggesting little mobility degradation caused by the plasma treatment.     

Temperature-dependent nonlinearities in GaN/AlGaN HEMTs

Temperature-dependent nonlinearities of GaN/AlGaN HEMTs are reported. The large-signal device model of the transistor is obtained by using a physics-based analysis. The model parameters are obtained as functions of bias voltages and temperature. The analysis of the device has been carried out using a time-domain technique. f_max for a 0.23 μm×100 μm Al_0.13Ga_0.87N/GaN FET is calculated as 69 GHz at 300 K, while at 500 K, f_max decreases to 30 GHz, which are in agreement with the experimental data within 7% error. f_max as obtained from calculated unilateral gain, decreases monotonically with increasing temperature. For shorter gate lengths irrespective of the operating temperature f_max is less sensitive to bias voltage scaling. For longer gate length devices, f_max becomes less sensitive to the bias voltage scaling at elevated temperatures. 1-dB compression point (P_1-dB ) at 4 GHz for a 1 μm×500 μm Al_0.15Ga_0.85N/GaN FET is 13 dBm at 300 K. At 500 K, P_1-dB decreases to 2.5 dBm for the same operating frequency. Similar results for output referred third intercept point (OIP3) are reported for different gate length devices     

AlGaN/GaN HEMT器件工艺的研究进展

首先论述了Al GaN/GaN高电子迁移率晶体管(HEMT)在微波大功率领域的应用优势和潜力;其次,介绍并分析了影响Al GaN/GaN HEMT性能的主要参数,分析表明要提高Al-GaN/GaN HEMT的频率和功率性能,需改善寄生电阻、电容、栅长和击穿电压等参数。然后,着重从材料结构和器件工艺的角度阐述了近年来Al GaN/GaN HEMT的研究进展,详细归纳了目前主要的材料生长和器件制作工艺,可以看出基本的工艺思路是尽量提高材料二维电子气的浓度和材料对二维电子气的限制能力的同时减小器件的寄生电容和电阻,增强栅极对沟道的控制能力。另外,根据具体情况调节栅长及沟道电场。最后,简要探讨了Al GaN/GaN HEMT还存在的问题以及面临的挑战。     

Structure optimization of field-plate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) on 6H-SiC with varying field-plate length and gate-drain spacing were fabricated and analyzed. The classical small signal FET model and the well-known ColdFET method were used to extract the small signal parameters of the devices. Though the devices with field plates exhibited lower better f_T characteristic, they did demonstrate better f_max, MSG and power density performances than the conventional devices without field plate. Besides, no independence of DC characteristic on field-plate length was observed. With the increase of the field-plate length and the gate-drain spacing, the characteristic of f_T and f_max degraded due to the large parasitic effects. Loadpull method was used to measure the microwave power performance of the devices. Under the condition of continuous wave at 5.4 GHz, an output power density of 4.69 W/mm was obtained for device with field-plate length of 0.5 μm and gate-drain length of 2 μm.     

增强型AlGaN/GaN HEMT器件工艺的研究进展

随着高压开关和高速射频电路的发展,增强型GaN基高电子迁移率晶体管(HEMT)成为该领域内的研究热点。增强型GaN基HEMT只有在加正栅压才有工作电流,可以大大拓展该器件在低功耗数字电路中的应用。近年来,国内外对增强型GaN基HEMT阈值电压的研究主要集中以下两个方面:在材料生长方面,通过生长薄势垒、降低Al组分、生长无极化电荷的AlGaN/GaN异质材料、生长InGaN或p-GaN盖帽层,来控制二维电子气浓度;在器件工艺方面,采用高功函数金属、MIS结构、刻蚀凹栅、F基等离子体处理,来控制表面电势,影响二维电子气浓度。从影响器件阈值电压的相关因素出发,探讨了实现和优化增强型GaN基HEMT的各种工艺方法和发展方向。     

AlGaN/GaN HEMT欧姆接触的研究进展

从欧姆接触形成的机理出发,介绍了在AlGaN/GaN HEMT中实现源和漏区欧姆接触的各种方法,如表面处理技术、金属化系统和重掺杂技术等.回顾了近年来这些方法的研究进展.     

磁控溅射AIN介质MIS栅结构的AlGaN/GaN HEMT

报道了一种X波段输出功率密度达10.4 W/mm的SiC衬底AIGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT,器件研制中采用了MIS结构、凹槽栅以及场板,其中MIS结构中采用了磁控溅射的A1N介质作为绝缘层.采用MIS结构后,器件击穿电压由80 V提高到了180 V以上,保证了器件能够实现更高的工作电压.在8 GHz、55 V的工作电压下,研制的1 mm栅宽AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT输出功率达到了10.4 W,此时器件的功率增益和功率附加效率分别达到了6.56 dB和39.2%.     

High-power polarization-engineered GaN/AlGaN/GaN HEMTs without surface passivation

In this paper, a high-power GaN/AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) has been demonstrated. A thick cap layer has been used to screen surface states and reduce dispersion. A deep gate recess was used to achieve the desired transconductance. A thin SiO/sub 2/ layer was deposited on the drain side of the gate recess in order to reduce gate leakage current and improve breakdown voltage. No surface passivation layer was used. A breakdown voltage of 90 V was achieved. A record output power density of 12 W/mm with an associated power-added efficiency (PAE) of 40.5% was measured at 10 GHz. These results demonstrate the potential of the technique as a controllable and repeatable solution to decrease dispersion and produce power from GaN-based HEMTs without surface passivation.     

High-power AlGaN/GaN HEMTs for Ka-band applications

We report on the fabrication and high-frequency characterization of AlGaN/GaN high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). In devices with a gate length of 160 nm, a record power density of 10.5 W/mm with 34% power added efficiency (PAE) has been measured at 40 GHz in MOCVD-grown HEMTs biased at V/sub DS/=30 V. Under similar bias conditions, more than 8.6 W/mm, with 32% PAE, were obtained on the MBE-grown sample. The dependence of output power, gain, and PAE on gate and drain voltages, and frequency have also been analyzed.     

Punchthrough-Voltage Enhancement of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Using AlGaN Double-Heterojunction Confinement

In this paper, we present an enhancement of punchthrough voltage in AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility-transistor devices by increasing the electron confinement in the transistor channel using an AlGaN buffer-layer structure. An optimized electron confinement results in a scaling of punchthrough voltage with device geometry and a significantly reduced subthreshold drain leakage current. These beneficial properties are pronounced even further if gate-recess technology is applied for device fabrication. Physical-based device simulations give insight in the respective electronic mechanisms.      

Effects of rapid thermal annealing on ohmic contact of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

工艺制作源漏电极为Ti/Al/Ti/Au,并在氮气气氛中对其进行快速退火,研究不同退火条件对欧姆接触的影响。具体实验过程如下：将溅射好源漏电极的外延片分为5部分,其中3片分别在700℃,750℃和800℃下快速退火30s,并相互对比得出最佳退火温度,实验结果发现750℃条件下欧姆接触最好;其余2片在750℃下分别退火25s和40s,并与前边实验750℃ 30s情况下欧姆接触比较,得出最佳退火时间为30s。我们使用传输线模式计算出电极与外延片的欧姆接触电阻率,在750℃ 30s的快速退火条件下得到最低欧姆接触电阻率为0.54 Ω mm,与其余条件下结果比较具有较好的表面形貌和边缘。从实验中我们也得到随着退火温度和退火时间的提高,欧姆接触电阻率先降低到达最低点然后开始升高的现象,为寻找GaN HEMT欧姆接触最佳条件提供了一定依据。     

凹槽栅场调制板结构AlGaN/GaN HEMT

研制的SiC衬底上的AlGaN/GaN微波功率HEMTs,采用凹槽栅和场调制板结构有效抑制了器件的电流崩塌,提高了器件的击穿电压和器件的微波功率特性.研制的1mm栅宽器件在8GHz,34V工作电压下,饱和输出功率达到了9.05W,功率增益为7.5dB,功率附加效率为46%.     

凹槽栅场调制板结构AlGaN/GaN HEMT

研制的SiC衬底上的AlGaN/GaN微波功率HEMTs,采用凹槽栅和场调制板结构有效抑制了器件的电流崩塌,提高了器件的击穿电压和器件的微波功率特性.研制的1mm栅宽器件在8GHz,34V工作电压下,饱和输出功率达到了9.05W,功率增益为7.5dB,功率附加效率为46%.     

X波段AlGaN/GaN HEMTs厂栅场板结构研究

基于SiC衬底成功研制X波段0.25um栅长带有г栅场板结构的AlGaN/GaN HEMT,对比T型栅结构器件,研究了г栅场板引入对器件直流、小信号及微波功率特性的影响.结果表明,г栅场板结构减小器件截止频率及振荡频率,但明显改善器件膝点电压和输出功率密度.针对场板长度分别为0.4、0.7、0.9、1.1 um,得出一定范围内增加场板长度,器件输出功率大幅度提高,并结合器件小信号模型提参结果分析原因.在频率8 GHz下,总栅宽1 mm,场板长度0.9um的器件,连续波输出功率密度7.11 W/mm,功率附加效率(PAE)35.31%,相应线性增益10.25 dB.