论文信息 - GaAs microwave MOSFET's

GaAs microwave MOSFET's

GaAs microwave metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET's) with plasma-grown native oxides as gate insulator have been fabricated using a low-temperature magnetically controlled plasma-oxidation technique. A small-signal enhancement device with the gate length of 2.0 µm has demonstrated useful unilateral power gains in the 2-8-GHz frequency range. A maximum frequency of oscillation in the enhancement device is 13 GHz. This is the highest in all enhancement-mode GaAs devices reported up to this time. A medium-power depletion device with the gate length of 1.8 µm has the maximum frequency of oscillation of 22 GHz. This value is 10 percent larger than that of the best analogous metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET). The intrinsic current-gain cutoff frequency for the depletion MOSFET is 4.5 GHz which is 22 percent higher than that of the MESFET. The superiority of the depletion MOSFET in the small-signal microwave performance over the MESFET results from the smaller gate parasitic capacitance in the MOSFET as compared to the MESFET. The depletion MOSFET has produced 0.4-W output power at 6.5 GHz as a Class A amplifier. Quite a large frequency dispersion of transconductance is observed in the enhancement MOSFET at a frequency range between 10 and 100 kHz and attributed to interface states. The effect of the interface states does not severely restrict the microwave-frequency capabilities of the enhancement MOSFET as well as the depletion MOSFET since the interface states are unable to follow the input-signal variations at high frequencies.

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