• DocumentCode
    1219196
  • Title

    High three-terminal breakdown voltage and output power of Sc2O3 passivated AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors

  • Author

    Luo, B. ; Mehandru, R. ; Kim, Jihyun ; Ren, F. ; Gila, B.P. ; Onstine, A.H. ; Abernathy, C.R. ; Pearton, S.J. ; Gotthold, D. ; Birkhahn, R. ; Peres, B. ; Fitch, R.C. ; Moser, N. ; Gillespie, J.K. ; Jenkins, T. ; Sewell, J. ; Via, D. ; Crespo, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    5/15/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    809
  • Lastpage
    810
  • Abstract
    MBE-deposited Sc2O3 films are found to effectively passivate surface states in the gate-drain region of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. The effect of the passivation is observed in higher forward IDS-VDS three-terminal breakdown voltage and output power under class A operation. In the latter case, the power-added efficiency was at least doubled.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; leakage currents; passivation; scandium compounds; semiconductor device breakdown; wide band gap semiconductors; AlGaN-GaN; AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors; MBE-deposited Sc2O3 films; Sc2O3; Sc2O3 passivation; class A operation; forward I-V characteristics; gate reverse leakage current; gate-drain region; output power; power-added efficiency; surface state passivation; three-terminal breakdown voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20030525
  • Filename
    1204799