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High Performance InAlAs/InAs/InGaAs Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Nobuhito Wakimura ,
Yugo Nakagawa ,
Hirohisa Taguchi ,
Tsutomu Iida  and
Yoshifumi Takanashi
Nobuhito Wakimura
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Science, Materials Science and Technology Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
Yugo Nakagawa
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Science, Materials Science and Technology Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
Hirohisa Taguchi
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Science, Materials Science and Technology Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
Tsutomu Iida
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Science, Materials Science and Technology Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
Yoshifumi Takanashi
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Science, Materials Science and Technology Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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Abstract

High electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) with a pseudomorphically strained InAs channel (InAs-PHEMTs) were fabricated, and their high frequency characteristics were estimated by measuring the S-parameters. For a VDS of 1.4 V and VGS of 0.3 V, InAs-PHEMTs showed an excellent intrinsic cut-off frequency (fT, int.) as high as 90 GHz regardless of their longer LG (0.7 μm). Since fT is known to be inversely proportional to LG to the first approximation, fT, int. of our InAs-PHEMTs may reach 630 GHz if their LG is reduced to 0.1 μm.

Moreover, we calculated the InAs-PHEMTs' energy state and potential profile by self-consistently solving the Schrödinger and Poisson equations. In solving the Schrödinger equation, the energy-dependent effective mass was employed to take into account the strong non-parabolicity of InAs conduction-band based on the k·p perturbation theory by E. O. Kane. It was clarified that most electrons are confined to the InAs layer. On the contrary, if the non-parabolicity is not taken into account, electrons will spread over the InGaAs channel layer.

Keywords

III-Vcompoundsemiconducting
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1108: Symposium A – Performance and Reliability of Semiconductor Devices , 2008 , 1108-A09-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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