Title :
Reliability of Gold Metallized Commercially Available Power GaAs FETs
Author :
Cohen, Eliot D. ; Macpherson, Alan C.
Author_Institution :
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375
Abstract :
Commercially available 0.5 watt GaAs FETs with gold based refractory gate metallizations have been subjected to accelerated stress testing under r.f. operation at 8 GHz. The results of these tests indicate that a conservative estimate of the mean time to failure of these devices is 2.5 à 106 hours at 125°C channel temperature.
Keywords :
Aluminum; Capacitance-voltage characteristics; FETs; Gallium arsenide; Gold; Life estimation; Metallization; Temperature; Testing; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability Physics Symposium, 1979. 17th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/IRPS.1979.362886