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Device-Circuit Performance Analysis of a High-VT Recessed-p-Gate HEMT Employing Doped-Buried Layer
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  • Hindol Bhattacharjee,
  • Anup Dey,
  • Joy Chowdhury,
  • Dr. Preetisudha Meher
Hindol Bhattacharjee
National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh
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Anup Dey
University of Manitoba Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Corresponding Author:anupetce@gmail.com

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Joy Chowdhury
Silicon Institute of Technology - Silicon West Campus Sambalpur
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Dr. Preetisudha Meher
National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh
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Abstract

Nowadays, one of the appealing choice of transistors for the next generation of high power devices is, AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (AlGaN/GaN-HEMT). Prior to now, numerous experiments were conducted utilizing various gate engineering techniques to propose high threshold voltage enhancement-mode HEMT architectures. In this paper, two new e-mode HEMT structures are proposed by taking motivation from our previously reported structure of Recessed p-GaN gate HEMT. By incorporating p-doped buried layer with recessed p-GaN gate in one HEMT structure, the threshold voltage is significantly increased. In first experiment, a p-doped GaN region is buried in to the Gallium Nitride (GaN) substrate of conventional p-GaN gate HEMT. In second experiment, a p-GaN buried layer is inserted in to GaN substrate of recessed p-GaN gate HEMT. V th of above 3V is obtained from the proposed structures, which is suitable to be implemented for high-frequency power switching applications. The proposed structures provides flexibility to tune V th and I d. The digital circuit compatibility is also tested by using both the proposed structures in a resistive-load inverter circuit. The transient analysis confirms that the HEMTs work properly in inverter circuit and the VTC analysis shows 98.5% of output voltage swing at input voltage of 5V. Highest NM H and NM L is measured as 2.85V and 2.65V respectively. The device simulation, calibration and circuit simulation is done in Silvaco TCAD software.
09 Dec 2024Submitted to International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields
10 Dec 2024Submission Checks Completed
10 Dec 2024Assigned to Editor
10 Dec 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
15 Dec 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned