Effect of the post-gate annealing on the gate reliability of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Changxi Chen; Quan Wang; Wei Li; Qian Wang; Chun Feng; Lijuan Jiang; Hongling Xiao; Xiaoliang Wang

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/42/9/092802

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