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Recent progress in GaN based field effect transistors

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OSTI ID:470881
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  1. APA Inc., Blaine, MN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Most types of GaN based Field Effect Transistors--MESFETS, MISFETS, heterostructure FETs (HFETs), and Doped Channel HFETs (DC-HFETs) have demonstrated a good performance at both room temperature and elevated temperatures. The DC-HFETs demonstrated the best direct current and microwave characteristics among all wide band gap semiconductor devices because of excellent transport properties of two dimensional electron gas at the AlGaN/GaN heterointerface and a large sheet carrier concentration in the device channel. Other advantages of GaN-based materials for FET applications include a very high breakdown field, a very high saturation field, a high peak velocity, a large conduction and valence band discontinuities at the AlN-GaN heterointerface, and a reasonable thermal conductivity (comparable to that of Si). In this paper, the authors review their recent results obtained for different types of GaN-based transistors.
Sponsoring Organization:
Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC (United States); Department of the Army, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
470881
Report Number(s):
CONF-951155--; ISBN 1-55899-313-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English