• DocumentCode
    1283933
  • Title

    Demonstration of high performance heterojunction field effect transistor in InAlAs/InGaAs/InAlGaAs/InP material system

  • Author

    Mand, R.S. ; Simmons, Jay G.

  • Author_Institution
    Furukana Electr. Technol. Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    1453
  • Lastpage
    1454
  • Abstract
    The heterojunction field effect transistor (HFET) is demonstrated for the first time in InAlAs/InGaAs/InAlGaAs/InP material system using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). A tungsten gate selfaligned HFET structure was made by ion imitation and rapid thermal annealing. The 1.0 mu m self-aligned gate HFET exhibited room temperature transconductance of 490 mS/mm with cutoff frequency of 9 GHz.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; annealing; field effect transistors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; ion implantation; molecular beam epitaxial growth; semiconductor doping; semiconductor epitaxial layers; semiconductor growth; semiconductor junctions; 1 micron; 9 GHz; HFET; InAlAs-InGaAs-InAlGaAs-InP; InP substrate; MBE; W gate; cutoff frequency; heterojunction field effect transistor; ion imitation; lattice matching; molecular beam epitaxy; n-channel; rapid thermal annealing; room temperature transconductance; self-aligned gate HFET; semiconductors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19910910
  • Filename
    81297