| Paper Abstract and Keywords |
| Presentation |
2007-11-27 13:30
Research on SiGe/Si HEMT for millimeter-wave band operation Norio Onojima, Akifumi Kasamatsu, Nobumitsu Hirose, Takashi Mimura, Toshiaki Matsui (NICT) ED2007-187 |
| Abstract |
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| (in English) |
We have fabricated sub-100-nm-gate-length SiGe/Si high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) toward ultra-high-speed Si-based devices operating in the millimeter-wave band. A 60-nm-gate-length device with a current gain cutoff frequency of 70 GHz was already achieved. In this study we investigated insulated-gate HEMTs using a SiN gate insulator formed by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (Cat-CVD). Compared with Schottky-gate HEMTs, large gate bias swing was achieved due to the insulated-gate structure, and superior DC device characteristics were obtained. RF device characteristics of the insulated-gate devices, however, were relatively inferior to the Schottky-gate devices. Electrical properties of the insulated-gate HEMT structure were studied with capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements, and the C-V characteristics demonstrated that two electron transport channels existed, one at the SiGe/Si buried channel and the other at the SiN/Si surface channel. To improve RF device characteristics of insulated-gate SiGe/Si HEMTs, it is required to optimize the device design including HEMT epitaxial structures. |
| Keyword |
(in Japanese) |
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| (in English) |
silicon germanium (SiGe) / high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) / insulated gate / silicon nitride (SiN) / catalytic chemical vapor deposition (Cat-CVD) / capacitance-voltage measurement (C-V) / / |
| Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 355, ED2007-187, pp. 1-5, Nov. 2007. |
| Paper # |
ED2007-187 |
| Date of Issue |
2007-11-20 (ED) |
| ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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