GaN HEMT – TechConnect Briefs

Analysis of High Average Breakdown Fields between Gate and Drain in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with High-k Passivation Layer

Tomita R., Ueda S., Kawada Y., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are now receiving great interest for application to high-power microwave devices and high power switching devices. To improve the breakdown voltage, the introduction of field plate is shown to be effective, but it [...]

Analysis of Breakdown Voltage of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with High-k Passivation Layer and High Acceptor Density in Buffer Layer

Ueda S., Tomita R., Kawada Y., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are now receiving great interest for application to high-power microwave devices and high power switching devices. To improve the breakdown voltage, the introduction of field plate is shown to be effective, but it [...]

ASM-HEMT: Industry Standard GaN HEMT Model for Power and RF Applications

Ghosh S., Ahsan S.A., Khandelwal S., Pampori A., Dangi R., Chauhan Y.S., IIT Kanpur, IN

HEMTs based on GaN have become immensely ubiquitous in the past decade and offer a strong competition to mature technologies like silicon primarily due to the superior characteristics offered by the GaN material system over [...]

Effect of Deep-Acceptor Density in Buffer Layer on Breakdown Voltage of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with High-k Passivation Layer

Ueda S., Kawada Y., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are now receiving great interest for application to high-power microwave devices and high power switching devices. To improve the breakdown voltage, the introduction of field plate is shown to be effective, but it [...]

Simulation of Breakdown Voltage Enhancement in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with Double Passivation Layers

Horio K., Hanawa H., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

It is well known that the introduction of field plate increases the breakdown voltage of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs [1, 2]. However, it increases the parasitic capacitance, leading to the degradation of high-frequency performance. As another way [...]

Effects of Buffer Acceptors on Breakdown Voltages of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with a High-k Passivation Layer

Kawada Y., Hanawa H., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are now receiving great interest for application to high-power microwave devices and high-power switching devices. However, the breakdown voltage is known to be greatly lower than that theoretically predicted. To improve the breakdown [...]

Simulation of Lags and Current Collapse in Field-Plate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with Different Types of Buffer Layers

Tsurumaki R., Noda N., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

In AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, slow current transients are often observed even if the gate voltage VG or the drain voltage VD is changed abruptly. This is called gate lag or drain lag, and is problematic for [...]

Simulation of Buffer Current Effects on Breakdown Voltage in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Having Passivation Layers with Different Permittivity

Satoh Y., Hanawa H., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

It is well known that the introduction of filed plate enhances the breakdown voltage in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. This is because the electric field at the drain edge of the gate is reduced. However, the field [...]

Simulation of Lags and Current Collapse in Field-Plate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with Deep Acceptors in a Buffer Layer

Noda N., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

Two-dimensional transient analysis of field-plate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs is performed in which a deep acceptor is considered in a semi-insulating buffer layer, and quasi-pulsed current-voltage curves are derived from them. It is studied how the existence [...]

Analysis of Breakdown Characteristics in Gate and Source Field-Plate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Onodera H., Hanawa H., Horio K., Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP

AlGaN/GaN HEMTs are now receiving great attention because of their applications to high-power microwave devices. It is known that the introduction of field plate enhances the power performance of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, because the off-state breakdown [...]