Study of Current Collapse Behaviors of Dual-Gate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on Si

Autor: Dai-Jie Lin, Jhih-Yuan Yang, Chih-Kang Chang, Jian-Jang Huang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, Vol 10, Pp 59-64 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2168-6734
DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2021.3132429
Popis: Surface traps on GaN-based HEMTs (high-electron-mobility transistors) usually result in the increase of channel on-resistance. It becomes worsen when short pulses are applied during high-frequency and high voltage switching. Here we present a dual-gate transistor structure to suppress the dynamic on-resistance increase. The auxiliary gate under a proper fixed voltage is able to induce additional electrons to compensate the channel carrier loss during main gate switching, leading to a lower dynamic on-resistance. In this work, we benchmarked the fundamental electrical properties of both single-gate and dual-gate HEMTs. We further extracted the dynamic electrical properties by stressing the devices with short pulses. The results suggest a significant mitigation of current collapse of a dual-gate HEMT under a proper bias applied on the auxiliary gate electrode. The physical mechanism based on the charge distribution in the channel is employed to explain the observations.
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