Field-plate engineering for HFETs

This paper reports on the analytical approach for designing field plates for reducing the electric field in the channel and at the surface of heterostructure field-effect transistors (HFETs) for a given drain voltage, with the smallest possible increase of the gate capacitance. The analytical calculations for GaN-based HFETs are in good agreement with the two-dimensional numerical simulations.

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