• DocumentCode
    2646487
  • Title

    Electro-thermo-mechanical simulation of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

  • Author

    Maur, M. Auf der ; Romano, G. ; Carlo, A. Di

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    22-25 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A fully selfconsistent, coupled electro-thermo-mechanical model for nitride-based devices is presented and applied to a high-power AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT). The influence of converse piezoelectric effect, thermal stress and of the selfconsistent coupling on the static device characteristics and on the stress distribution in the device is studied.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; piezoelectricity; stress analysis; wide band gap semiconductors; AlGaN-GaN; HEMT; converse piezoelectric effect; coupled electrothermomechanical model; electrothermomechanical simulation; high-power high electron mobility transistor; nitride-based devices; selfconsistent coupling; static device characteristics; stress distribution; thermal stress; Aluminum gallium nitride; Gallium nitride; HEMTs; MODFETs; Mathematical model; Strain; Stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Electronics (IWCE), 2012 15th International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Madison, WI
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0705-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWCE.2012.6242824
  • Filename
    6242824