• DocumentCode
    316067
  • Title

    Correlation between hot-electron light emission and currents in pseudomorphic HEMTs [AlGaAs-InGaAs-GaAs]

  • Author

    Cova, P. ; Fantini, F. ; Manfredi, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. & Technol., Parma Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    14-17 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    237
  • Abstract
    In this paper we show a straight correlation between the integrated light emitted and the DC currents in pseudomorphic HEMTs biased at high drain voltage, where, due to hot electrons, impact ionization takes place. By means of electrical and optical measurements we have found three different recombination mechanisms originating the light emission in three different energy ranges
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; electron-hole recombination; gallium arsenide; high electron mobility transistors; hot carriers; impact ionisation; indium compounds; AlGaAs-InGaAs-GaAs; DC currents; energy ranges; high drain voltage bias; hot-electron light emission; impact ionization; pseudomorphic HEMTs; recombination mechanisms; Breakdown voltage; Electric variables measurement; Electron optics; Gallium arsenide; Impact ionization; Indium gallium arsenide; Leakage current; Noise figure; PHEMTs; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronics, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 21st International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nis
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3664-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMEL.1997.625227
  • Filename
    625227