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Hier finden Sie wissenschaftliche Publikationen aus den Fraunhofer-Instituten. Trade-offs between performance and reliability in AlGaN/GaN transistors
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Waltereit, P.; Bronner, W.; Kiefer, R.; Quay, R.; Dammann, M.; Cäsar, M.; Brueckner, P.; Müller, S.; Mikulla, M.; Ambacher, O. | Physica status solidi. C 9 (2012), No.2, pp.365-368
ISSN: 1610-1634
ISSN: 1610-1642
ISSN: 1862-6351 |
| International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) <38, 2011, Berlin> |
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| English |
| Journal Article, Conference Paper |
| Fraunhofer IAF () |
| GaN; HEMT; reliability; performance |
Abstract
We report on the trade-off between performance and reliability for AlGaN/GaN transistors. It is shown that changes in epitaxial growth, transistor design and process may lead to an improvement in performance but are, at the same time, accompanied by a degradation of device reliability. As a result we show strategies in order to balance performance and reliability as both are linked. Based on these findings we have realized state-of-the-art power bars for mobile communication systems and X-band MMICs for radar applications.