Proton irradiation energy dependence of dc and rf characteristics on InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors

Chien Fong Lo; Lu Liu; Fan Ren; Stephen J. Pearton; Brent P. Gila; Hong Yeol Kim; Jihyun Kim; Oleg Laboutin; Yu Cao; Jerry W. Johnson; Ivan I. Kravchenko

doi:10.1116/1.4729285

Proton irradiation energy dependence of dc and rf characteristics on InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors

Chien Fong Lo
, Lu Liu
, Fan Ren
, Stephen J. Pearton
, Brent P. Gila
, Hong Yeol Kim
, Jihyun Kim
, Oleg Laboutin
, Yu Cao
, Jerry W. Johnson
, Ivan I. Kravchenko

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The effects of proton irradiation energy on dc and rf characteristics of InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) were investigated. A fixed proton dose of 5 × 10¹⁵ cm^-2 with 5, 10, and 15 MeV irradiation energies was used in this study. For the dc characteristics, degradation was observed for sheet resistance, transfer resistance, contact resistivity, saturation drain current, maximum transconductance, reverse-bias gate leakage current, and sub-threshold drain leakage current for all the irradiated HEMTs; however, the degree of the degradation was decreased as the irradiation energy increased. Similar trends were obtained for the rf performance of the devices, with ∼10% degradation of the unity gain cut-off frequency (f_T) and maximum oscillation frequency (f_max) for the HEMTs irradiated with 15 MeV protons but 30% for 5 MeV proton irradiation. The carrier removal rate was in the range 0.66-1.24 cm^-1 over the range of proton energies investigated.

Original language	English
Article number	041206
Journal	Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Nanotechnology and Microelectronics
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4729285
State	Published - Jul 2012

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The work performed at UF is supported by an AFOSR MURI monitored by James Huang and by HDTRA (Don Silversmith) under contract U.S. DOD HDTRA Grant No. 1-11-1-0020. A portion of this research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is sponsored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy.

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Lo, C. F., Liu, L., Ren, F., Pearton, S. J., Gila, B. P., Kim, H. Y., Kim, J., Laboutin, O., Cao, Y., Johnson, J. W., & Kravchenko, I. I. (2012). Proton irradiation energy dependence of dc and rf characteristics on InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Nanotechnology and Microelectronics, 30(4), Article 041206. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4729285

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