G. Parish, M. Hansen, B. Moran, S. Keller, S. Denbaars, U. Mishra
{"title":"AlGaN/GaN solar-blind ultraviolet photodiodes on SiC substrate","authors":"G. Parish, M. Hansen, B. Moran, S. Keller, S. Denbaars, U. Mishra","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902541","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we investigated the growth of bulk AlGaN layers on n-type 6H-SiC by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, and use of this material in solar-blind ultraviolet photodiodes. Direct nucleation of the AlGaN on the SIC was used to enable a conducting buffer, rather than use of an AlN nucleation layer. Diodes with backside contacts were fabricated on UV photodetector structures of p-GaN/i-AlGaN/n-GaN. Leakage currents were measured to be as low as 10 nA/cm/sup 2/. Responsivity measurements revealed undesirable photocurrent contribution from the underlying SiC.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126609452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 16 W, 40% efficient, continuous wave, 4H SiC, L-band SIT","authors":"R. C. Clarke, A. Morse, P. Esker, W. Curtice","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902530","url":null,"abstract":"Wide bandgap transistor developments described in this work include CW SiC SITs with output powers at L-band of 16 W/cm, and increased breakdown voltage SITs having a 400 V blocking voltage and 35 W/cm output power. Progress with pulse devices includes a 800 W UHF SIT and a 900 W L-band SIT.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126984921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Maher, D. Disanto, G. Soerensen, M. Dvorak, T. MacElwee, J. Webb, C. Bolognesi
{"title":"Wet etching and its application to the fabrication and characterization of AlGaN/GaN HFETs","authors":"H. Maher, D. Disanto, G. Soerensen, M. Dvorak, T. MacElwee, J. Webb, C. Bolognesi","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902538","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a simple and reproducible UV photo-assisted wet etching process which can be carried out near room temperature and which does not appreciably degrade the GaN surface roughness from its original value for layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy on sapphire substrates: for example, AFM measurements indicate that the removal of 1000 /spl Aring/ of GaN only degrades the RMS surface roughness by /spl les/10 /spl Aring/. Etch rates of 20 A/min have been achieved with a UV power density of only 1.0 mW/cm/sup 2/ at /spl lambda/=365 nm. The etch rates and the good resultant surface quality make the etch technique attractive for gate recess etching and mesa isolation processes. The process is thus well-suited for the fabrication of high-quality AlGaN/GaN HFETs. The suitability of the technique to device fabrication is demonstrated by the implementation of high-performance 0.2 /spl mu/m gate devices with f/sub T/=43 GHz and f/sub MAX/=97 GHz using MBE-grown layers on sapphire substrates. We also demonstrate the applicability of the method for device fabrication using MOCVD-grown material on both sapphire and 4H-SiC substrates: the method is generally useful and non-specific as to the substrate used or the growth method.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127018782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Gila, K. Lee, W. Johnson, F. Ren, C. Abernathy, S. Pearton, M. Hong, J. Kwo, J. Mannaerts, K. Anselm
{"title":"A comparison of gallium gadolinium oxide and gadolinium oxide for use as dielectrics in GaN MOSFETs","authors":"B. Gila, K. Lee, W. Johnson, F. Ren, C. Abernathy, S. Pearton, M. Hong, J. Kwo, J. Mannaerts, K. Anselm","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902537","url":null,"abstract":"Amorphous gadolinium gallium oxide (GGG) and crystalline gadolinium oxide (Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/) have been investigated as dielectrics for fabrication of GaN metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors. GGG, deposited by e-beam evaporation in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) chamber was found to produce a breakdown field of 12 MV/cm indicating a low concentration of defects in the dielectric. MOSFETs fabricated with this dielectric showed modulation at forward voltages up to 3 V. Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/ was deposited by molecular beam epitaxy using elemental Gd and an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) oxygen plasma in an MBE chamber. Both reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and X-ray diffraction confirm the single crystal nature of the deposited Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/. However, cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy indicates the presence of a large concentration of dislocations and other structural defects. These defects cause significant leakage in the Gd203 and necessitated the addition of an SiO/sub 2/ overlayer in order to reduce the gate leakage current in depletion mode devices. Using this double layer structure, devices with modulation at forward voltages up to 7 V were obtained, as compared to 3 V. For devices fabricated with GGG. Both dielectrics appear to be stable at temperatures up to 950-1000/spl deg/C as determined by X-ray diffraction and Auger electron spectroscopy.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132786021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Prunty, J. Smart, E.N. Chumbes, B. Ridley, L. Eastman, J. Shealy
{"title":"Passivation of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures with silicon nitride for insulated gate transistors","authors":"T. Prunty, J. Smart, E.N. Chumbes, B. Ridley, L. Eastman, J. Shealy","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902540","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of surface passivation on undoped AlGaN/GaN heterostructures using silicon nitride is presented. It is found that the charge density in the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the AlGaN/GaN interface increases after passivation. This can be explained by the action of the passivating layer providing a positive charge at the AlGaN interface great enough to neutralize the AlGaN polarization charge, thereby eliminating surface related depletion from the 2DEG. A simple polarization model based on interface charges is presented to explain this enhancement, and is compared with Hall effect and capacitance voltage (C-V) measurements of passivated and unpassivated structures. The dependence of the charge enhancement on AlGaN barrier layer thickness, as well as Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ thickness is given. We also show that a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure of this type can be used to deplete 2DEG, allowing for the fabrication of insulated gate transistors.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121557087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Lin, K. Yang, A.F. Gonza'lez, J. East, P. Mazumder, G. Haddad, D. Chow, L. D. Warren, H. Dunlap, J. A. Roth, S. Thomas
{"title":"Fabrication and characterization of RTD-HBT inverter","authors":"C. Lin, K. Yang, A.F. Gonza'lez, J. East, P. Mazumder, G. Haddad, D. Chow, L. D. Warren, H. Dunlap, J. A. Roth, S. Thomas","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902517","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the first thorough study of InP-based static inverters using RTD/HBT monolithic integration technology. RTD-based logic circuits have been widely studied because of their abilities to achieve high-speed operations and reduce circuit complexity. In this paper, we investigate a static inverter in order to explore RTD-based logic circuit behavior. Studies on output characteristics and power dissipation at high frequencies are included. In order to determine the maximum operating speed of the inverters, ring oscillators based on three stages of static inverters have been fabricated and measured.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123832944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Debray, V. Zverev, M. Rahman, E. Strobel, E. Kohn, B. Vinter
{"title":"A ballistic quantum device for potential use in analog-to-digital conversion","authors":"P. Debray, V. Zverev, M. Rahman, E. Strobel, E. Kohn, B. Vinter","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902513","url":null,"abstract":"We present the concept of a ballistic quantum device based on electron waveguides that can conceivably be used for high-speed, low-power, large bandwidth analog-to-digital conversion. We report low-temperature (/spl les/4.2 K) experimental results that validate the device concept and suggest guidelines for realizing devices capable of operation at a temperature of 77 K and higher.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128652393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Chigaeva, W. Walthes, Dirk Wiegner, M. Grozing, F. Schaich, N. Wieser, Manfred Berroth, O. Breitschadel, L. Kley, B. Kuhn, F. Scholz, Heinz Schweizer, O. Ambacher, J. Hilsenbeck
{"title":"Determination of small-signal parameters of GaN-based HEMTs","authors":"E. Chigaeva, W. Walthes, Dirk Wiegner, M. Grozing, F. Schaich, N. Wieser, Manfred Berroth, O. Breitschadel, L. Kley, B. Kuhn, F. Scholz, Heinz Schweizer, O. Ambacher, J. Hilsenbeck","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902526","url":null,"abstract":"The small-signal equivalent circuit of AlGaN/GaN HEMT is discussed It is shown that an extremely high gate voltage has to be applied to correctly determine series resistances. Effects appearing at high forward gate voltages are discussed. Good agreement between measured and simulated data has been achieved.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127528728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Alekseev, P. Nguyen-Tan, D. Pavlidis, M. Micovic, D. Wong, C. Nguyen
{"title":"Current-injection characterization of breakdown in AlGaN/GaN MODFETs","authors":"E. Alekseev, P. Nguyen-Tan, D. Pavlidis, M. Micovic, D. Wong, C. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902522","url":null,"abstract":"Al/sub 0.3/Ga/sub 0.7/N/GaN MODFETs grown on sapphire substrates by RF-assisted MBE demonstrate excellent DC as well as high-frequency characteristics. Power characteristics of these transistors measured on-wafer at 8 GHz showed excellent correlation with the biasing voltages and currents. Since the use of higher drain bias generally leads to higher output power and the maximum drain bias is limited by the drain-source and/or drain-gate breakdowns these need to be evaluated in order to investigate to what extent they limit the power performance of GaN-based MODFETs. The breakdown characteristics of AlGaN/GaN MODFETs were studied by employing the current-injection technique and the gate-drain and drain-source breakdown voltages were obtained as a function of the drain current and the substrate temperature. At room temperature devices demonstrated drain-source and gate-drain breakdown voltages of 70 and 80 V, respectively. Based on the gate bias and temperature dependence of the breakdown voltages, the source of breakdown is attributed to the thermionic emission in the gate-drain diode.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127633158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Eastman, B. Green, J. Smart, V. Tilak, E. Chumbes, Hyungtak Kim, T. Prunty, N. Weimann, R. Dimitrov, O. Ambacher, W. Schaff, J. Shealy
{"title":"Power limits of polarization-induced AlGaN/GaN HEMT's","authors":"L. Eastman, B. Green, J. Smart, V. Tilak, E. Chumbes, Hyungtak Kim, T. Prunty, N. Weimann, R. Dimitrov, O. Ambacher, W. Schaff, J. Shealy","doi":"10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CORNEL.2000.902545","url":null,"abstract":"The present and predicted limits on microwave power performance of undoped AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are presented, based on measured frequency response and drain-source breakdown voltage, both as functions of gate length. The spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization that induce the 2DEG in these HEMTs are covered. Process methods, including Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ passivation are included. Thermal simulation results are shown for heat dissipation that limits channel temperature to 300/spl deg/C. Microwave cw power density limits of 12.5 W/mm at 10 GHz are predicted for class A operation on thick SiC substrates.","PeriodicalId":256233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices (Cat. No.00CH37122)","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113932575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}