Enhanced robustness against hot-electron-induced degradation in active-passivation p-GaN gate HEMT

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作者
Yang, Junjie [1 ]
Wei, Jin [1 ]
Wu, Yanlin [1 ]
Yu, Jingjing [1 ]
Cui, Jiawei [1 ]
Yang, Xuelin [2 ]
Liu, Xiaosen [3 ]
Wang, Jinyan [1 ]
Hao, Yilong [1 ]
Wang, Maojun [1 ]
Shen, Bo [2 ]
机构
[1] Peking Univ, Sch Integrated Circuits, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[2] Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[3] Tsinghua Univ, Sch Integrated Circuits, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
MIS-HEMTS; IMPACT;
D O I
10.1063/5.0186902
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
The hot-electron-related reliability is an important issue for GaN power devices under harsh operation condition or environment. These high-energy electrons can scatter toward the device surface or buffer layer, introducing newly generated traps/defects and resulting in the degradation of dynamic ON-resistance (R-ON). This work investigates the dynamic characteristics in active-passivation p-GaN gate HEMTs (AP-HEMTs) after hot-electron stress (HES). Unlike the dielectric passivation whose dynamic R-ON performance is often reported to severely worsen as hot-electron-induced defects/traps accumulate, the active passivation is found to have a superior robustness against hot-electron stress. In this study, after an HES of 30 min with V-D = 200 V and I-S = 10 mA/mm, the dynamic R-ON/static R-ON of a conventional HEMT increases dramatically from 3.63 to 9.35 for VDS-OFF = 650 V, whereas that of AP-HEMT only shows a slight increase from 1.51 to 1.85. Two mechanisms have been experimentally proved for the improved hot-electron robustness in AP-HEMT. (i) The mobile holes in active passivation layer can effectively screen the preexisting and/or newly generated surface defects/traps from affecting the 2DEG channel. (ii) The recovery of buffer trapping is accelerated by hole injection from gate and active passivation.
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