• DocumentCode
    860652
  • Title

    12 W/mm power density AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on sapphire substrate

  • Author

    Chini, A. ; Buttari, D. ; Coffie, R. ; Heikman, S. ; Keller, S. ; Mishra, U.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    73
  • Lastpage
    74
  • Abstract
    Record power performance at 4 GHz has been obtained using field-plated AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on sapphire substrate. High power density (12 W/mm) as well as high efficiency (58%) have been measured. A comparison between devices with and without field plate on the same sample showed a significant reduction in knee-voltage walk-out for the field-plated device, thus enabling high power and efficiency operation.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; microwave field effect transistors; microwave power transistors; power HEMT; wide band gap semiconductors; 4 GHz; AlGaN-GaN; electrically shorted gate; field-plated HEMT; high efficiency; high power density; knee-voltage walkout reduction; large signal characteristics; overlapping field-plate structure; passivated devices; peak power added efficiencies; pulsed I-V measurements; reduced dispersion phenomena; sapphire substrate;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20040017
  • Filename
    1260685