enhancement-mode (E-mode) AlO/AlGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (MIS-HEMTs) with a gate-length (L) of 0.25 m are fabricated using gate recess and ALD-AlO process on a sapphire substrate. The fabricated E-mode MIS-HEMTs exhibit a threshold voltage of +2.2 V and a saturation drain current of 512.3 mA/mm at V=8 V. The interface trap state density (D) extracted by frequency/temperature-dependent capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurement between AlO and AlGaN decreases from 8.50×10 cmeV at the energy of (-0.35) eV to 9.73×10 cmeV at (-0.65) eV. In addition
the fabricated devices show excellent RF performance which consists of a cut-off frequency () of 30.5 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency () of 71.5 GHz. Large-signal power measurements at 8 GHz reveal a maximum saturated output power density of 1.7 W/mm with a corresponding PAE of 32.6% in continuous-wave mode. These results showed the gate-recessed E-mode MIS-HEMTs are candidates for X-band applications.
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