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Elsevier, Microelectronic Engineering, 11(87), p. 2042-2045, 2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2010.02.013

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Drain current enhancement and negligible current collapse in GaN MOSFETs with atomic-layer-deposited HfO2 as a gate dielectric

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Abstract

2030121010026 ; 電機工程學系 ; Accumulation-type GaN metal–oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFET’s) with atomic-layer-deposited HfO2 gate dielectrics have been fabricated; a 4 μm gate-length device with a gate dielectric of 14.8 nm in thickness (an equivalent SiO2 thickness of 3.8 nm) gave a drain current of 230 mA/mm and a broad maximum transconductance of 31 mS/mm. Owing to a low interfacial density of states (Dit) at the HfO2/GaN interface, more than two third of the drain currents come from accumulation, in contrast to those of Schottky-gate GaN devices. The device also showed negligible current collapse in a wide range of bias voltages, again due to the low Dit, which effectively passivate the surface states located in the gate-drain access region. Moreover, the device demonstrated a larger forward gate bias of +6 V with a much lower gate leakage current.