학술논문

Effects of Drain Field Plate Structure and Passivation Dielectrics on Breakdown Voltage of GaN MISHEMT
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Asia (WiPDA Asia) Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Asia (WiPDA Asia), 2023 IEEE Workshop on. :1-4 Aug, 2023
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Performance evaluation
Silicon compounds
Electric potential
Dielectric constant
Photonic band gap
Asia
Hafnium compounds
GaN
MISHEMT
Breakdown Voltage
High performance
Field plate
Language
ISSN
2831-3712
Abstract
In this work, a novel D-mode GaN MISHEMT with two steps drain field plate is proposed. The designed two steps drain field plate modulates the high electric field at the drain side by spreading the electric field across the two field plates of the device thus enhancing the breakdown voltage of the device. The breakdown voltage of the device is about 1587V which is 350V more than that of the conventional GaN MISHEMT. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the adoption of the proposed design shows minimal impact on the DC characteristics of the device, ensuring its overall performance remains largely unaffected. In addition, by using high-k passivation layers the breakdown of the conventional device is improved by 20.6 % by using HfO 2 and reduced by S.4 % by using SiO 2 when compared with the SiN passivation layer.