• DocumentCode
    1922209
  • Title

    Anomalous impact-ionization gate current in high breakdown InP-based HEMT´s

  • Author

    Meneghesso, G. ; Manfredi, M. ; Pavesi, M. ; Auer, U. ; Ellrodt, P. ; Prost, W. ; Tegude, F.J. ; Canal, C. ; Zanoni, E.

  • Author_Institution
    DEI Universitiá di Padova, via Gradenigo 6/A 35131 Padova, Italy
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    9-11 Sept. 1996
  • Firstpage
    1001
  • Lastpage
    1004
  • Abstract
    Impact-ionization phenomena have been studied in InAlAs/InGaAs HEMT´s on InP-substrates by means of DC measurements and of a 2D hydrodynamic simulator. An anomalous double bell-shaped curve behaviour of the gate current as a function of Vgs has been found and attributed to a widening of the gate-drain high electric field region on increasing Vgs beyond 0 V. We correlate impactionization features with light emission in the 1.1÷3.2 eV energy range.
  • Keywords
    Current measurement; Electric breakdown; Electrons; HEMTs; Hydrodynamics; Indium compounds; Indium gallium arsenide; Indium phosphide; Lattices; Length measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid State Device Research Conference, 1996. ESSDERC '96. Proceedings of the 26th European
  • Conference_Location
    Bologna, Italy
  • Print_ISBN
    286332196X
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5435852