Title

Anomalous Decrease of Off-State Drain Leakage Current in GaN/AlGaN HEMTs With Dual Optical Excitation

Authors

Authors

A. Das; D. H. Ko; R. M. Lin; L. B. Chang;L. Chow

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Electron Device Lett.

Keywords

Deep traps; GaN; HEMTs; optical excitation; off-state current; YELLOW LUMINESCENCE; GAN; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Abstract

We report an anomalous decrease of off-state drain leakage current (I-Off-state) of GaN/AlGaN HEMTs upon dual optical excitation. The phenomenon was observed accidentally during dc characterization of devices when both fluorescent white room light and incandescent optical microscope light were turned on. A similar phenomenon was observed and verified through simultaneous optical excitation of both ultraviolet (UV similar to 350 nm) light and 532-nm green light. A spectrally resolved measurement revealed broad trap level centered similar to 2.27 eV. The decrease of I-Off-state during dual excitation is owing to the optical quenching of photoconductivity in GaN buffer layer. This quenching effect is originated from enhanced light-defect interaction, where sub-band gap light reduces photoconductivity induced by above bandgap light. Observation of this phenomenon would provide us an alternative way to characterize GaN buffer layer quality for the development of GaN HEMTs.

Journal Title

Ieee Electron Device Letters

Volume

35

Issue/Number

8

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

820

Last Page

822

WOS Identifier

WOS:000341573000004

ISSN

0741-3106

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