Author Affiliations
1College of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 5000, China2Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of (a) FPC-MISFET and (b) EJ-MISFET.
Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of fabrication steps for proposed structure.
Fig. 3. (a) The ID–VDS characteristic curves and (b) blocking characteristic cuves from simulation and experiment to validate effectiveness of models used in simulation.
Fig. 4. Channel electric field distribution of C-MISFET (without field plates), FPC-MISFET, and EJ-MISFET.
Fig. 5. Off-state breakdown voltage from simulation of C-MISFET (without field plate), FPC-MISFET, and EJ-MISFET.
Fig. 6. Lateral electron density distribution in 2DEG for FPC-MISFET and EJ-MISHFET.
Fig. 7. Output characteristics of FPC-MISFET and EJ-MISFET.
Fig. 8. Transfer characteristics of FPC-MISFET and EJ-MISFET.
Fig. 9. Plot of optimized VBK and RONversusNN+ with NN+ ranging from 6× 1018 cm−3 to 2.4× 1019 cm−3 and LGN taking optimized value.
Fig. 10. Plot of optimized VBK and RONversusLGN with LGN ranging from 3 μm to 14 μm and NN+ bing 1× 1019 cm−3.
Fig. 11. Plot of VBK and RONversusWN with WN ranging from 1 μm to 1.8 μm.
Fig. 12. Plot of VBK and RONversusHN with HN ranging from 36 nm to 71 nm and HP being 31 nm.
Fig. 13. Plot of VBK and RONversusHP with HP ranging from 23 nm to 37 nm and HN being 41 nm.
Fig. 14. Plot of VBK and RONversusNP, NP ranging from 1 × 1017 cm−3 to 1 × 1018 cm−3.
Parameters | Unit | Values |
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Distance from source to gate (LSG) | μm | 2 | Gate length (LG) | μm | 1.5 | Gate field plate length (LGFP) | μm | 3 | Drain field plate length (LDFP) | μm | 0.5 | Distance from gate to drain (LGD) | μm | 15 | Thickness of gate dielectric (TGd) | nm | 17 | Thickness of passivation layer (Tpass) | nm | 100 | Thickness of Al0.25Ga0.75N barrier layer (Tbar) | nm | 21 | Thickness of GaN buffer layer (Tbuff) | μm | 1.6 | Thickness of Al-containing transition layer (Ttransition) | μm | 2.4 | Distance from gate to N-type layer (LGN) | μm | 13 | Distance from N-type layer to P-type layer (LPN) | μm | 0.01 | N-type layer length (WN) | μm | 1.5 | Thickness of N-type layer (HN) | nm | 41 | Thickness of P-type layer (HP) | nm | 31 | P-type layer doping concentration (NP+) | cm−3 | 1 × 1017 | N-type layer doping concentration (NN+) | cm−3 | 1 × 1019 | GaN buffer doping concentration (Nbuff) | cm−3 | 1 × 1015 |
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Table 1. Key structural parameters.
VBK/V@1 μA/mm | RON/Ω⋅mm | References |
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868 | 14.98 | C-MISFET | 1546 | 14.98 | FPC-MISFET | 2050 | 15.37 | EJ-MISFET | 650 | 13.2 | [24] | 1290 | 10.3 | [37] | 1400 | 9.2 | [38] | 1456 | 10.1 | [39] | 1528 | 13.3 | [40] |
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Table 2. Comparison of device characteristic between device in this paper and other reported GaN devices.