Duffy, SJ, Benbakhti, B, Kalna, K, Boucherta, M, Zhang, WD, Bourzgui, N and Soltani, A (2018) Strain-Reduction Induced Rise in Channel Temperature at Ohmic Contacts of GaN HEMTs. IEEE Access. ISSN 2169-3536

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Abstract

Operating temperature distributions in AlGaN/GaN gateless and gated devices are characterized and analyzed using the InfraScope temperature mapping system. For the first time, a substantial rise of channel temperature at the inner ends of ohmic contacts has been observed. Synchrotron radiation based high-resolution X-ray diffraction technique combined with drift -diffusion simulations show that strain reduction at the vicinity of ohmic contacts increases electric fi eld at these locations, resulting in the rise of lattice temperature. The thermal coupling of a high conductive tensile region at the contacts to a low conductive channel region is an origin of the temperature rise observed in both short- and long-channel gateless devices.

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Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Electronics & Electrical Engineering (merged with Engineering 10 Aug 20)
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2018 09:54
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 10:14
DOI or ID number:	10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2861323
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9079

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