Influence of Buffer Carbon Doping on Pulse and AC Behavior of Insulated-Gate Field-Plated Power AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Autor: Thomas Detzel, Giovanni Verzellesi, Gianmauro Pozzovivo, Enrico Zanoni, Matteo Meneghini, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Gilberto Curatola, L. Morassi, S. Lavanga, Oliver Häberlen
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: IEEE Electron Device Letters. 35:443-445
ISSN: 1558-0563
0741-3106
DOI: 10.1109/led.2014.2304680
Popis: Pulse behavior of insulated-gate double-field-plate power AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with C-doped buffers showing small current-collapse effects and dynamic RDS,on increase can accurately be reproduced by numerical device simulations that assume the CN-CGa autocompensation model as carbon doping mechanism. Current-collapse effects much larger than experimentally observed are instead predicted by simulations if C doping is accounted by dominant acceptor states. This suggests that buffer growth conditions favoring CN-CGa autocompensation can allow for the fabrication of power AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with reduced current-collapse effects. The drain-source capacitance of these devices is found to be a sensitive function of the C doping model, suggesting that its monitoring can be adopted as a fast technique to assess buffer compensation properties.
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