Recessed-Gate Doped-Channel Hetero-MISFETs (DMTs) for High-Speed Laser Driver IC Application

Yasuyuki SUZUKI  Hikaru HIDA  Tetsuyuki SUZAKI  Sadao FUJITA  Akihiko OKAMOTO 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics  Vol.E76-C  No.6  pp.907-911
Publication Date: 1993/06/20
Online ISSN: 
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology for Advanced Functions and Size-Reductions)
Category: 
Keyword: 
DMT,  pseudomorphic,  laser driver,  GaAs IC,  optical communication, 

Full Text: PDF(556.3KB)

Summary: 
Recessed-gate DMTs (doped-channel hetero-MISFETs) with i-AlGaAs/n-GaAs structure and pseudomorphic i-AlGaAs/n-InGaAs/i-GaAs structure have been developed. Broad plateaus in gm and fT provide evidence that the DMTs make the devices suitable for high-speed large-signal operation. GaAs DMTs with 0.35 µm-length have gate turn on voltage of 0.7 V, maximum transconductance of 320 mS/mm and fT of 41 GHz. Pseudomorphic DMTs have gate turn on voltage of 0.9 V, maximum transconductance of 320 mS/mm, fT of 42 GHz and have the enhanced advantages of high current drivability and large gate swing. Further more, with the use of the recessed-gate DMTs, a high-speed laser driver IC for multi-Gb/s optical communication systems are demonstrated. This laser driver IC operates at 10 Gb/s with rise and fall times as fast as 40 psec, and it can drive up to 60 mA into a 25 Ω load.