Affiliation:
1. School of Physics & Electronic Science, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China
2. The Key Laboratory, The Fifth Electronics Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Guangzhou 510610, China
Abstract
In this study, the electrical characteristics of depletion-mode AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with a SiNx gate dielectric were tested under hydrogen exposure conditions. The experimental results are as follows: (1) After hydrogen treatment at room temperature, the threshold voltage VTH of the original device was positively shifted from −16.98 V to −11.53 V, and the positive bias of threshold was 5.45 V. When the VDS was swept from 0 to 1 V with VGS of 0 V, the IDS was reduced by 25% from 9.45 A to 7.08 A. (2) Another group of original devices with identical electrical performance, after the same duration of hydrogen treatment at 100 °C, exhibited a reverse shift in threshold voltage with a negative threshold shift of −0.91 V. The output characteristics were enhanced, and the saturation leakage current was increased. (3) The C-V method and the low-frequency noise method were used to investigate the effect of hydrogen effect on the device interface trap and border trap, respectively. It was found that high-temperature hydrogen conditions can passivate the interface/border traps of SiNx/AlGaN, reducing the density of interface/border traps and mitigating the trap capture effect. However, in the room-temperature hydrogen experiment, the concentration of interface/border traps increased. The research findings in this paper provide valuable references for the design and application of depletion-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices.
Funder
Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Project
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Key R&D Program of China
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Control and Systems Engineering
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