• DocumentCode
    2068305
  • Title

    Self-heating effects of GaN FETs for high power microwave applications

  • Author

    Tam, C.K. ; Koon, K.L. ; Hu, Z.R. ; Rezazadeh, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., London Univ., UK
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    119
  • Lastpage
    123
  • Abstract
    The simulation study of self-heating effects of GaN MESFET device is presented. 2D physical device modeling is used to examine the self-heating effects of the device. Simulation results show that the lattice temperature can be as high as 600 K with heat sink placed at the source, which leads to severe reduction of drain to source current, and hence the device output power
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; microwave field effect transistors; microwave power transistors; power MESFET; semiconductor device models; thermal analysis; wide band gap semiconductors; 2D physical device modeling; GaN; GaN MESFET; device output power; drain to source current reduction; high-power microwave applications; lattice temperature; self-heating effects; simulation study; Charge carrier processes; Electromagnetic heating; Electron mobility; Gallium nitride; Heat sinks; Lattices; Microwave FETs; Microwave devices; Poisson equations; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices for Microwave and Optoelectronic Applications, 2001 International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Vienna
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7049-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDMO.2001.974294
  • Filename
    974294