• DocumentCode
    970375
  • Title

    High speed GaAs digital integrated circuit with clock frequency of 4.1 GHz

  • Author

    Yamamoto, Ryo ; Higashisaka, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Nippon Electric Co. Ltd., Basic Technology Research Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    291
  • Lastpage
    292
  • Abstract
    A maximum clock frequency of 4.1 GHz was obtained for a GaAs digital integrated circuit using deep recess normally-on GaAs MESFETs with 1.2 ¿m long gate and interdigitated Schottky diodes. The Ti/Pt/Au gate electrode was made by a lift-off technique with conventional photolithography. The minimum propagation delay of a NAND/AND gate was estimated to be 100 ps/gate for a fan-out of 2 from the self-oscillation frequency of the master-slave flip-flops.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; Schottky gate field effect transistors; Schottky-barrier diodes; digital integrated circuits; field effect integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; 4.1 GHz clock frequency; GaAs digital integrated circuit; III-V semiconductor; MESFETs; Ti/Pt/Au gate electrode; interdigitated Schottky diodes; master-slave flip-flops; photolithography; propagation delay;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19810204
  • Filename
    4245671