DocumentCode
3109490
Title
Noise reduction of pHEMTs with plasmaless SiN passivation by catalytic CVD
Author
Hattori, R. ; Nakamura, G. ; Nomura, S. ; Ichise, T. ; Masuda, A. ; Matsumura, H.
Author_Institution
Opt. & Microwave Devices Lab., Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Itami, Japan
fYear
1997
fDate
12-15 Oct. 1997
Firstpage
78
Lastpage
80
Abstract
We improved the catalytic (cat-) CVD technique for damage free passivation on compound semiconductors. The cat-CVD SiN passivation successfully reduces the noise figure of X-band pHEMTs because Rs and Cgs are reduced due to low deposition damage.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; chemical vapour deposition; gallium arsenide; high electron mobility transistors; microwave field effect transistors; passivation; semiconductor device noise; GaAs; III-V semiconductors; SiN; X-band; catalytic CVD; damage free passivation; deposition damage; noise figure; pHEMTs; plasmaless passivation; Etching; Noise reduction; Optical films; PHEMTs; Passivation; Plasma applications; Plasma devices; Plasma materials processing; Semiconductor films; Silicon compounds;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 1997. Technical Digest 1997., 19th Annual
Conference_Location
Anaheim, CA, USA
ISSN
1064-7775
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4083-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/GAAS.1997.628242
Filename
628242
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