Study on mechanism of current collapse and knee voltage drift for AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Wang Lin; Hu Wei-Da; Chen Xiao-Shuang; Lu Wei

doi:10.7498/aps.59.5730

Abstract

In this article, we comprehensively showed the impact of barrier layer traps, buffer layer traps and surface charge on current collapse and knee voltage change, pointed out that the change in the concentration of surface charge and barrier layer traps have little influence on the 2DEG density in the channel.When the concentration of surface charge changes, the knee voltage drift and strength of current collapse are in close connection with the change of potential energy in quantum well.Buffer layer has stronger local effect than barrier layer, when the concentration of bulk traps change in these layers, knee voltage drift is mainly caused by the change of 2DEG density, but has less change compared with the situation of surface charge.Potential energy changes in the quantum well is an important reason for the change of knee voltage, the strength of current collapse is determined by the size of potential energy and 2DEG density.

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National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200083, China
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[2]	Chinese) [冯倩、郝跃、岳远征 2008 物理学报 57 1886]
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[4]	[席光义、任凡、郝智彪、汪莱、李洪涛、江洋、赵维、韩彦军、罗毅 2008 物理学报 57 7238]
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