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High RF Performance of 50-nm-Gate Lattice-Matched InAlAs/InGaAs HEMTs
Akira ENDOH Yoshimi YAMASHITA Masataka HIGASHIWAKI Kohki HIKOSAKA Takashi MIMURA Satoshi HIYAMIZU Toshiaki MATSUI
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Vol.E84-C
No.10
pp.1328-1334 Publication Date: 2001/10/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM 2000 (Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Microelectronics 2000)) Category: Hetero-FETs & Their Integrated Circuits Keyword: InAlAs/InGaAs, InP, HEMT, cutoff frequency, low-temperature fabrication process,
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Summary:
We fabricated 50-nm-gate InAlAs/InGaAs high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) lattice-matched to InP substrates by using a conventional process under low temperatures, below 300 C, to prevent fluorine contamination and suppress possible diffusion of the Si-δ-doped sheet in the electron-supply layer, and measured the DC and RF performance of the transistors. The DC measurement showed that the maximum transconductance gm of a 50-nm-gate HEMT is about 0.91 S/mm. The cutoff frequency fT of our 50-nm-gate HEMT is 362 GHz, which is much higher than the values reported for previous 50-nm-gate lattice-matched HEMTs. The excellent RF performance of our HEMTs results from a shortening of the lateral extended range of charge control by the drain field, and this may have been achieved because the low-temperature fabrication process suppressed degradation of epitaxial structure.
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