Ionizing radiation damage effects on GaN devices

SJ Pearton, F Ren, E Patrick, ME Law… - ECS Journal of solid …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Gallium Nitride based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are attractive for use in high
power and high frequency applications, with higher breakdown voltages and two …

Ionizing radiation defects and reliability of Gallium Nitride-based III-V semiconductor devices: a comprehensive review

V Sandeep, JC Pravin, SA Kumar - Microelectronics Reliability, 2024 - Elsevier
The remote sensing and satellite community working for space organizations have
expressed interest in building advanced devices with potential choices for Gallium Nitride …

Radiation-induced defect evolution and electrical degradation of AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors

YS Puzyrev, T Roy, EX Zhang… - … on Nuclear Science, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Threshold-voltage shifts and increases in 1/f noise are observed in proton-irradiated
AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors, indicating defect-mediated device …

Effects of proton-induced displacement damage on gallium nitride HEMTs in RF power amplifier applications

NE Ives, J Chen, AF Witulski… - … on Nuclear Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effects of proton-induced displacement damage in GaN HEMTs on circuit-level RF
power amplifier parameters such as circuit gain, stability, and RF output power are …

Single-event damages caused by heavy ions observed in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

S Kuboyama, A Maru, H Shindou… - … on Nuclear Science, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It was demonstrated that several kinds of permanent damage were introduced by heavy ions
in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs similar to SiC devices. A new mode of damage attributable to the …

Determination of single-event effect application requirements for enhancement mode gallium nitride HEMTs for use in power distribution circuits

L Scheick - IEEE Transactions on nuclear science, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Characterization of destructive single-event effects in enhancement mode gallium nitride
high electron mobility transistors is presented as related to the optimal application of and …

Enhanced charge collection by single ion strike in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

S Onoda, A Hasuike, Y Nabeshima… - … on Nuclear Science, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transient currents in AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) induced by
focused ion beams are measured. Enhanced charge collection occurs in the on-and pinch …

Single-event damage observed in GaN-on-Si HEMTs for power control applications

E Mizuta, S Kuboyama, Y Nakada… - … on Nuclear Science, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The single-event damage observed in AlGaN/GaN high-electron mobility transistors
(HEMTs) was investigated. For power control applications, normally off operation is …

Simulation study of single-event burnout in hardened GaN MISFET

XX Fei, Y Wang, B Sun, J Xing, W Wei, CY Li - Radiation Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents simulation results of a single event burnout (SEB), for a hardened GaN
metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MISFET), employing a dual channel p …

High-fluence proton-induced degradation on AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors

S Yue, Z Lei, C Peng, X Zhong, J Wang… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The electrical characteristics and low-frequency noise (LFN) of AlGaN/GaN high-electron-
mobility transistors (HEMTs) after 3-MeV proton irradiation up to a total dose of 5.0× 10 14 …