High Performance Metal-Gate/High-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\kappa } $ </tex-math></inline-formula> GaN MOSFET With Good Reliability for Both Logic and Power Applications

oleh: Shih-Han Yi, Dun-Bao Ruan, Shaoyan Di, Xiaoyan Liu, Yung Hsien Wu, Albert Chin

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: IEEE 2016-01-01

Deskripsi

The gate-recessed GaN MOSFET on a Si substrate is demonstrated to achieve a record highest normalized transistor current (&#x03BC;C<sub>ox</sub>) of 335 &#x03BC;A/V<sup>2</sup> (410 mA/mm at L<sub>G</sub> = 5 &#x03BC;m and only V<sub>G</sub> = 4 V), I<sub>ON</sub>/I<sub>OFF</sub> of 9 orders of magnitude, small 79 mV/dec sub-threshold slope, a low oxide/GaN interface trap density of 1.2 &#x00D7; 10<sup>10</sup> eV<sup>-1</sup>/cm<sup>2</sup>, a low on-resistance of 17.0 &#x03A9;-mm, a high breakdown voltage of 720-970 V, and excellent reliability of only 40 mV &#x0394;V<sub>T</sub> after 175 &#x00B0;C 1000 s stress at maximum drive current. Such excellent device integrities are due to the high-K gate dielectric and the high conduction band offset (&#x0394;E<sub>C</sub>) of SiO<sub>2</sub>/GaN. From the calculation results of self-consistent Schro&#x0308;dinger and Poisson equations, the good reliability of GaN MOSFET is related to the confined carrier density within the GaN channel, which is in sharp contrast to the strong wave-function penetration into the high-trap density AlGaN barrier in the AlGaN/GaN HEMT.