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With the increasing demand for high-frequency, high-power and high-temperature microwave applications, AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors have received much attention due to their promising material features such as wide band gaps, high-concentration two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), strong electric field, at which the electron velocity is saturated, and high operating temperature. The 2DEG mobility at AlGaN/GaN interface is a key parameter to describe characteristics of high electron mobility transistor, and the mobility of 2DEG in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor is determined by a variety of scattering mechanisms in which the polar optical phonon scattering caused by electrostatic field between uneven polar positive and negative charges is responsible for mobility limitation in a 2DEG at high temperature. Calculation of polar optical phonon scattering is carried out by the analytical model in which Fang-Howard variational wave function and Fermi’s golden rule are used. The interaction between 2DEG and phonon is described by scattering matrix element for the transition, in which phonon occupation number is given by Bose-Einstein statistics. The scattering time is derived by neglecting the in-scattering, and the numerically calculated energy-dependent scattering time is averaged according to Fermi statistics. At temperatures in a range of 200–400 K and two-dimensional electron gas concentration in a range of 6 × 1011–1 × 1013 cm–2, the mobility varying with temperature is analyzed. It is found that the mobility limited by polar phonon scattering decreases monotonically with the temperature rising and their dependence is well approximated by a function of $\mu_{\rm PO} = AT^{-\alpha} ~ (\alpha = 3.5)$ as the phonon occupation number increases with temperature rising. Furthermore, the polar optical phonon scattering is enhanced by greater electron concentration as a result of increased interaction between phonon and 2DEG. The mobility limit is calculated separately by emission phonon and absorption phonon, the results indicate that absorption phonon is predominant, which is attributed to high optical phonon energy in GaN. The mobility of polar optical phonon scattering is further studied by changing the optical phonon energy, which shows that the room temperature mobility of 2DEG can be improved by increasing the energy of polar optical phonon.-
Keywords:
- two-dimensional electron gas /
- polar optical phonon scattering /
- high temperature mobility /
- optical phonon energy
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图 1 AlGaN/GaN HEMT器件结构图
Figure 1. Device structure diagram of AlGaN/GaN HEMT.
图 2 纵光学波引起的极化示意图
Figure 2. A schematic diagram of polarization caused by a longitudinal optical wave.
图 3 极化光学声子散射因素决定的迁移率随温度的变化
Figure 3. Mobility limited by polar optical phonon scattering as a function of temperature.
图 4 不同2DEG浓度n2D下, 极化光学声子散射随温度的变化
Figure 4. Polar optical phonon scattering dependence on temperature for different n2D.
图 5 极化光学声子散射随光学声子能量ћωLO的变化
Figure 5. Curve of polar optical phonon scattering versus optical phonon energy ћωLO.
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[1] Yu E T, Dang X Z, Asbeck P M, Lau S S, Sullivan G J 1999 J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 17 1742
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[4] 刘贵鹏 2013 博士学位论文 (北京: 中国科学院大学)
Liu G P 2013 Ph. D. Dissertation (Beijing: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) (in Chinese)
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Zhang J F, Hao Y, Zhang J C, Ni J Y 2008 Sci. China Ser. E: Inf. Sci. 38 949
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Google Scholar
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Chen Z K 2016 Ph. D. Dissertation (Chengdu: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) (in Chinese)
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Yang P, Lü Y W, Wang X B 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 197303
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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