Article Dans Une Revue Solid-State Electronics Année : 2013

DC, RF and noise performance of InAs/AlSb HEMTs with in situ CVD SiNx-film for early-protection against oxidation

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A new method for avoiding air exposure of the mesa-floor during processing of shallow-mesa InAs/AlSb HEMTs is reported. The method is based on the in situ chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of a SiNx-film, right after the shallow-mesa dry-etch process. The in situ CVD method allows also growing a dielectric film up to five times thicker than in previous reports of similar early-protection approach. Devices featuring a 25 nm SiNx-film enabled by the in situ CVD method are compared to devices based on a previously developed process, where the mesa floor is protected by a 2 nm SiNx-film deposited by ex situ reactive sputtering (RS). Microscopy observations revealed that the new process is more robust, ensuring a long-term stability against oxidation. DC, RF and noise performance were measured for 110 nm gate-length HEMTs. Devices based on the CVD process demonstrated higher peak transconductance (+13%), elevated Ion/Ioff ratio (factor 4.7) and one order of magnitude lower gate current leakage. The cut-off frequency fT and the maximum oscillation frequency fmax at a drain–source voltage of 0.3 V increased up to 175 GHz (+20%) and 130 GHz (+18%), respectively. Moreover, the extracted minimum noise figure for the InAs/AlSb HEMT using the in situ CVD early-protection was 1.4 dB at 6 GHz, instead of 2.3 dB for the RS based devices.

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hal-00871902 , version 1 (18-08-2022)

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Giuseppe Moschetti, Eric Lefebvre, Martin Fagerlind, Per-Åk Nilsson, L. Desplanque, et al.. DC, RF and noise performance of InAs/AlSb HEMTs with in situ CVD SiNx-film for early-protection against oxidation. Solid-State Electronics, 2013, 87, pp.85-89. ⟨10.1016/j.sse.2013.06.008⟩. ⟨hal-00871902⟩
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