High-performance 2 mm gate width GaNHEMTs on 6H-SiC with output power of 22.4 W @ 8 GHz

Optimized AlGaN/AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) structures were grown on 2-in semi-insulating (SI) 6H-SiC substrate by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The 2-in. HEMT wafer exhibited a low average sheet resistance of 305.3 Omega/sq with a uniformity of 3.85%. The fabricated large periphery device with a dimension of 0.35 pm x 2 nun demonstrated high performance, with a maximum DC current density of 1360 mA/mm, a transconductance of 460 mS/mm, a breakdown voltage larger than 80 V, a current gain cut-off frequency of 24 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 34 GHz. Under the condition of continuous-wave (CW) at 9 GHz, the device achieved 18.1 W output power with a power density of 9.05 W/mm and power-added-efficiency (PAE) of 36.4%. While the corresponding results of pulse condition at 8 GHz are 22.4 W output power with 11.2 W/mm power density and 45.3% PAE. These are the state-of-the-art power performance ever reported for this physical dimension of GaN HEMTs based on SiC substrate at 8 GHz. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Observations on subband electron properties in In0.65Ga0.35As/In0.52Al0.48As MM-HEMT with Si delta-doped on the barriers

Magneto-transport measurements have been carried out on a Si delta-doped In0.65Ga0.35As/In0.52Al0.48As metamorphic high-electron-mobility transistor with InP substrate in a temperature range between 1.5 and 60 K under magnetic field up to 13 T. We studied the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) effect and the Hall effect for the In0.65Ga0.35As/In0.52Al0.48As single quantum well occupied by two subbands and obtained the electron concentration and energy levels respectively. We solve the Schrodinger-Kohn-Sham equation in conjunction with the Poisson equation self-consistently and obtain the configuration of conduction band, the distribution of carriers concentration, the energy level of every subband and the Fermi energy. The calculational results are well consistent with the results of experiments. Both experimental and calculational results indicate that almost all of the delta-doped electrons transfer into the quantum well in the temperature range between 1.5 and 60 K.

1-mm gate periphery AlGaN/AIN/GaN HEMTs on SiC with output power of 9.39 W at 8 GHz

AlGaN/AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structures with high mobility GaN channel layer were grown on 50 min diameter semi-insulating (SI) 6H-SiC substrates by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and large periphery HEMT devices were fabricated and characterized. High two-dimensional electron gas mobility of 2215 cm(2)/V s at room temperature with sheet electron concentration of 1.044 x 10(13)/cm(2) was achieved. The 50 mm diameter HEMT wafer exhibited a low average sheet resistance of 251.0 Omega/square, with the resistance uniformity of 2.02%. Atomic force microscopy measurements revealed a smooth AlGaN surface with a root-mean-square roughness of 0.27 nm for a scan area of 5 mu mi x 5 pm. The 1-mm gate width devices fabricated using the materials demonstrated a very high continuous wave output power of 9.39 W at 8 GHz, with a power added efficiency of 46.2% and power gain of 7.54 dB. A maximum drain current density of 1300 mA/mm, an extrinsic transconductance of 382 mS/mm, a current gain cutoff frequency of 31 GHz and a maximum frequency of oscillation 60 GHz were also achieved in the same devices. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Electron transport properties of MM-HEMT with varied channel indium contents

Transport properties of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) are crucial to metamorphic high-electron-mobility transistors (MM-HEMT). We have investigated the variations of subband electron mobility and concentration versus temperature from Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations., and variable temperature Hall measurements. The results indicate that the electrical performance is the best when the In content is 0.65 in the channel for MM-HEMT. When the In content exceeds 0.65, a large lattice mismatch will cause dislocations and result in the decrease of mobility and the fall of performance in materials and devices.

Y在固体电极的电化学过程及Y_(mm)-Ni和Y_(mm)-Fe合金制备

本文对YCl_3-KCl.NaCl熔体中Y在固体M_0，Ni和Fe电极上的电化学过程及用氯化的熔休电解制备Y_(mm)-Ni和Y_(mm)-Fe合金进行了系统研究。对电解时电解槽内熔体温度分布进行了测定，得出了电解制备Y_(mm)-Ni合金时槽内熔体温度分布图。结果表明，从阴极表面到电解槽内表面的温度递降不是均匀的，阴极附近出现一个高温区。随着边缘电解质温度的升高，阴极表面温度基本上平行地上升。电极表面温度超出边缘电解质温度随电解时阴极电流密度和电流强度的增大而增加，在一定范围内有很好的线性关系；当使用高阴极电流密度时，可高达近百度。

X-Band GaN Power HEMTs with Power Density of 2.23W/mm Grown on Sapphire by MOCVD

The growth,fabrication,and characterization of 0.2μm gate-length AlGaN/GaN HEMTs,with a high mobility GaN thin layer as a channel,grown on (0001) sapphire substrates by MOCVD,are described.The unintentionally doped 2.5μm thick GaN epilayers grown with the same conditions as the GaN channel have a room temperature electron mobility of 741cm2/(V·s) at an electron concentration of 1.52×1016 cm-3.The resistivity of the thick GaN buffer layer is greater than 108Ω·cm at room temperature.The 50mm HEMT wafers grown on sapphire substrates show an average sheet resistance of 440.9Ω/□ with uniformity better than 96%.Devices of 0.2μm×40μm gate periphery exhibit a maximum extrinsic transconductance of 250mS/mm and a current gain cutoff frequency of77GHz.The AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with 0.8mm gate width display a total output power of 1.78W (2.23W/mm) and a linear gain of 13.3dB at 8GHz.The power devices also show a saturated current density as high as 1.07A/mm at a gate bias of 0.5V.

变In组分沟道的MM-HEMT材料电子输运特性研究

在变缓冲层高迁移率晶体管(MM-HEMT)器件中,二维电子气的输运性质对器件性能起着决定作用.通过低温下二维电子气横向电阻的量子振荡现象,结合变温度的Hall测量,系统研究了不同In组分沟道MM-HEMT器件中子带电子迁移率和浓度随温度的变化关系.结果表明,沟道中In组分为0.65的样品,材料电学性能最好,In组分高于0.65的样品,严重的晶格失配将产生位错,引起迁移率下降,大大影响材料和器件的性能.

MBE生长的跨导为186 mS/mm的AlGaN/GaN HEMT

用分子束外延(MBE)技术研制出了AlGaN/GaN高电子迁移率晶体管(HEMT)材料,其室温迁移率为1 035 cm2/Vs、二维电子气浓度为1.0×1013 cm-2;77 K迁移率为2 653 cm2/V*s、二维电子气浓度为9.6×1012 cm-2.用此材料研制了栅长为1 μm、栅宽为80 μm、源-漏间距为4 μm的AlGaN/GaN HEMT,其室温最大非本征跨导为186 mS/mm、最大漏极饱和电流密度为925 mA/mm、特征频率为18.8 GHz.另外,还研制了具有20个栅指(总栅宽为20×80 μm＝1.6 mm)的大尺寸器件,该器件的最大漏极饱和电流为1.33 A.

用于先进 CMOS电路的 150 mm硅外延片外延生长(英文)

随着大规模和超大规模集成电路特征尺寸向亚微米、深亚微米发展，下一代集成电路对硅片的表面晶体完整性和电学性能提出了更高的要求。与含有高密度晶体原生缺陷的硅抛光片相比，硅外延片一般能满足这些要求。该文报道了应用于先进集成电路的150mmP/P~+ CMOS硅外延片研究进展。在PE2061硅外延炉上进行了P/P~+硅外延生长。外延片特征参数，如外延层厚度、电阻率均匀性，过渡区宽度及少子产生寿命进行了详细表征。研究表明:150mm P/P~+CMOS硅外延片能够满足先进集成电路对材料更高要求。

Design and fabrication of polarization-insensitive 1550 mm semiconductor optical amplifiers

Polarization-insensitive semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's) with tensile-strained multi-quantum-wells as actice regions are designed and fabricated. The 6x6 Luttinger-Kohn model and Bir-Pikus Hamiltonian are employed to calculate the valence subband structures of strained quantum wells, and then a Lorentzian line-shape function is combined to calculate the material gain spectra for TE and TM modes. The device structure for polarization insensitive SOA is designed based on the materialde gain spectra of TE and TM modes and the gain factors for multilayer slab waveguide. Based on the designed structure parameters, we grow the SOA wafer by MOCVD and get nearly magnitude of output power for TE and TM modes from the broad-area semiconductor lasers fabricated from the wafer.

Elucidating solvent contributions to solution reactions with ab initio QM/MM methods.

Computer simulations of reaction processes in solution in general rely on the definition of a reaction coordinate and the determination of the thermodynamic changes of the system along the reaction coordinate. The reaction coordinate often is constituted of characteristic geometrical properties of the reactive solute species, while the contributions of solvent molecules are implicitly included in the thermodynamics of the solute degrees of freedoms. However, solvent dynamics can provide the driving force for the reaction process, and in such cases explicit description of the solvent contribution in the free energy of the reaction process becomes necessary. We report here a method that can be used to analyze the solvent contributions to the reaction activation free energies from the combined QM/MM minimum free-energy path simulations. The method was applied to the self-exchange S(N)2 reaction of CH(3)Cl + Cl(-), showing that the importance of solvent-solute interactions to the reaction process. The results were further discussed in the context of coupling between solvent and solute molecules in reaction processes.