IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (Jan 2020)

A Fast Extraction Method of Energy Distribution of Border Traps in AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT

  • Rui Gao,
  • Yijun Shi,
  • Zhiyuan He,
  • Yiqiang Chen,
  • Yunfei En,
  • Yun Huang,
  • Zhigang Ji,
  • Jianfu Zhang,
  • Weidong Zhang,
  • Xuefeng Zheng,
  • Jinfeng Zhang,
  • Yang Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2020.3016022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 905 – 910

Abstract

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MIS-HEMT is one of the most promising structures to prohibit the unfavorable gate leakage in conventional AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. However, the extra insulator layer introduces massive border traps at insulator/AlGaN interface and results in the poor reliability. In this brief the energy distribution of border traps in AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT gate stack is extracted and investigated through a discharging-based trap energy profile technique. The technique adopts spot-Id sense measurement with 1 millisecond measurement time to capture the “whole (both fast and slow)” border traps. The results are beneficial to improve the reliability of AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT.

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