Equivalent gate noise voltage spectra of 1-µm gate-length modulation-doped FET's with pseudomorphic InGaAs quantum-well structure have been measured for the frequency range of 0.01 Hz to 100 MHz and compared with the noise spectra of conventional AlGaAs/ GaAs MODFET's and GaAs MESFET's. The prominent generation-recombination (g-r) noise bulge commonly observed in the vicinity of 10 kHz in conventional MODFET's at 300 K does not appear in the case of the new InGaAs quantum-well MODFET. Instead, its noise spectra indicate the presence of low-intensity multiple g-r noise components superimposed on a reduced1/fnoise. The LF noise intensity in the new device appears to be the lowest among those we have observed in any MODFET or MESFET. The noise spectra at 82 K in the new device represent nearly true1/fnoise. This unusual low-noise behavior of the new structure suggests the effectiveness of electron confinement in the quantum well that significantly reduces electron trapping in the n-AlGaAs, and thus eliminates the g-r noise bulge observed in conventional MODFET's.
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