Power Scaling of Graded-Channel GaN HEMTs With Mini-Field-Plate T-gate and 156 GHz fT.

Autor: Moon, Jeong-Sun, Grabar, Bob, Wong, Joel, Chuong, Dao, Arkun, Erdem, Morales, Didiel Vazquez, Chen, Peter, Malek, Christopher, Fanning, David, Venkatesan, Nivedhita, Fay, Patrick
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Zdroj: IEEE Electron Device Letters; Jun2021, Vol. 42 Issue 6, p796-799, 4p
Abstrakt: We report 60-nm gate-length graded-channel AlGaN/GaN HEMTs fabricated with a mini-field-plate T-gate. The devices exhibit an extrinsic fT and $\text{f}_{\text {MAX}}$ of 156 GHz and 308 GHz, respectively. At 60-nm gate length, the fT*Lg of 9.4 GHz $\ast \mu \text{m}$ is comparable to that of conventional scaled short gate-length AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. Due to minimal current collapse, the graded-channel GaN HEMTs demonstrated linear RF power scaling up to 5.5 W/mm at 30 GHz. This results in a record $\text{f}_{\text {T}}~\ast $ power density product of 858 GHz $\ast \text{W}$ /mm for Ga-polar GaN devices, indicating the promise of this device architecture for mmW amplifiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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