Stability, reliability, and robustness of GaN power devices: A review

JP Kozak, R Zhang, M Porter, Q Song… - … on Power Electronics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium nitride (GaN) devices are revolutionarily advancing the efficiency, frequency, and
form factor of power electronics. However, the material composition, architecture, and …

Output capacitance loss of GaN HEMTs in steady-state switching

Q Song, R Zhang, Q Li, Y Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The output capacitance () loss, a loss produced when the device's output capacitor is
charged and discharged, has become a concern for GaN high electron mobility transistors …

Trap-state mapping to model GaN transistors dynamic performance

N Modolo, C De Santi, A Minetto, L Sayadi, G Prechtl… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Trapping phenomena degrade the dynamic performance of wide-bandgap transistors.
However, the identification of the related traps is challenging, especially in presence of non …

Microwave and Millimeter-Wave GaN HEMTs: Impact of Epitaxial Structure on Short-Channel Effects, Electron Trapping, and Reliability

E Zanoni, C De Santi, Z Gao, M Buffolo… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Application of gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs) to millimeter-
wave power amplifiers requires gate length scaling below 150 nm: in order to control short …

Charge Trapping in GaN Power Transistors: Challenges and Perspectives

M Meneghini, N Modolo, A Nardo… - 2021 IEEE BiCMOS …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, gallium nitride has emerged as an excellent semiconductor for the
fabrication of power devices, to be used in energy conversion systems and switching-mode …

Dynamic on-resistance stability of SiC and GaN power devices during high-frequency (100–300 kHz) hard switching and zero voltage switching operations

ZH Huang, SW Tang, CT Fan, MC Lin, TL Wu - Microelectronics Reliability, 2023 - Elsevier
To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the high-frequency (100–300 kHz)
switching stability of SiC power devices at a Vds of 800 V during hard switching (HSW) and …

Temperature-Dependent Dynamic Ron of GaN E-HEMTs: The Impact of p-GaN Drain

S Li, K Sheng, S Yang - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the temperature-dependent dynamic ON-resistance () behaviors of GaN
enhancement-mode (E-mode) high-electron-mobility transistors (E-HEMTs) with and without …

Compact modeling of nonideal trapping/detrapping processes in GaN power devices

N Modolo, C De Santi, G Baratella… - … on Electron Devices, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compact modeling of charge trapping processes in GaN transistors is of fundamental
importance for advanced circuit design. The goal of this article is to propose a methodology …

Physical Insights Into the Lattice Temperature Dependent Evolution of Hot Electron Distribution in GaN HEMTs on C-Doped GaN-on-Si

RR Chaudhuri, V Joshi, RR Malik… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, with the help of detailed experimentation and well-calibrated computations, we
probe into the physical mechanism governing temperature dependence of the hot electron …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative Measurement Approach for the Evaluation of Hot-Electron Degradation in p-GaN Gate AlGaN/GaN Power HEMTs

M Cioni, G Giorgino, A Chini, A Parisi, G Cappellini… - Electronic …, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a new method for evaluating hot-electron degradation in p-GaN gate
AlGaN/GaN power HEMTs is proposed. The method exploits a commercial parameter …