Presentation 2002/10/3
Copper-Gate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with Low Gate Leakage Current
Jin-Ping Ao, Daigo Kikuta, Yasuo Ohno,
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Abstract(in English) The application of copper to AlGaN/GaN HEMT gate will benefit from the superior electronic conductivity for narrow gate and low cost. In this paper, evaluation of AlGaN/GaN HEMT with copper gate was presented. For a device with gate length of 2μm and drain-source distance of 10μum, extrinsic transconductance is about 60mS/mm at the gate voltage of -3V and drain voltage of 8V. Maximum drain current density is found to be 400mA/mm under gate voltage of 5V and drain voltage of 15.9V. At gate voltage of -15V, gate leakage currents are found to be as low as 5.4×10^-8 (1.08μA/mm) under drain voltage of 0.1V. For comparison, two kinds of devices were fabricated with same process conditions except the gate metals, one is Cu (200nm) gate type by thermal evaporation and another is Ni/Au (50nm/50nm) gate type by electron beam evaporation. Comparable I-V performances were obtained for the two kinds of devices. Threshold voltage shift exists mainly due to the metal work function difference between Cu and Ni but gate leakage current is lower for Cu gate device than that for NiAu gate device. No adherence problem was found during these experiments. These results indicate that copper is another candidate as gate metallization for AlGaN/GaN HEMT.
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Keyword(in English) AlGaN/GaN HEMT / Copper gate / Gate leakage current / Schottky contact
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Title (in English) Copper-Gate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with Low Gate Leakage Current
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Keyword(1) AlGaN/GaN HEMT
Keyword(2) Copper gate
Keyword(3) Gate leakage current
Keyword(4) Schottky contact
1st Author's Name Jin-Ping Ao
1st Author's Affiliation Satellite Venture Business Laboratory, The University of Tokushima()
2nd Author's Name Daigo Kikuta
2nd Author's Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokushima
3rd Author's Name Yasuo Ohno
3rd Author's Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokushima
Date 2002/10/3
Paper # ED2002-211
Volume (vol) vol.102
Number (no) 363
Page pp.pp.-
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