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GaN-on-AlN as a platform for high-voltage complementary electronics

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Bader_cornellgrad_0058F_11951.pdf (18.81 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/98nj-7755
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70411
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Author
Bader, Samuel James
Abstract

The prospect of defining complementary logic monolithically in a wide-bandgap semiconductor such as Gallium Nitride, to manage the RF and power applications of an an energy-efficient and always-connected world, has attracted massive interest in recent years. This thesis introduces the subject with a tour of complementary logic outlooks in a range of wide-bandgap and heterogenous architectures. Then it zooms into GaN-on-AlN, the platform on which our team has been developing this possibility, and discusses mathematically the design of both n-channel and p-channel devices therein. Then the thesis demonstrates the first generation of recessed GaN/AlN p-channel devices that allowed this material system to stake its claim as a contender and discusses how to model such devices. With that flag in place, we then divert into more fundamental physics, providing a theoretical coverage of the transport possible in this high-quality platform. Finally, the thesis concludes with a set of devices acheiving current-levels in the same order of magnitude as many normally-off GaN HEMTs, a threshold which indicates that, finally, the dream of co-integration could offer true design value.

Description
258 pages
Date Issued
2020-05
Committee Chair
Jena, Debdeep
Committee Member
Molnar, Alyosha
Xing, Huili
Fuchs, Gregory
Degree Discipline
Applied Physics
Degree Name
Ph. D., Applied Physics
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13254525

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