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Recent Progress of Diamond Devices for RF Applications

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Publication Date2016-10-01
AuthorsMakoto Kasu, Toshiyuki Oishi
InstitutionsSaga University
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Diamond possesses exceptional physical properties, such as a high breakdown field and carrier mobility. It is therefore expected to be highly efficient for high-power RF devices. We identify hole carrier doping in diamond using nitrogen dioxide (NO <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;2&lt;/sub> ). Furthermore, we find that an aluminum oxide (Al <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;2&lt;/sub> O <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;3&lt;/sub> ) passivation layer greatly improves the thermal stability of the hole channel. These two technologies enable us to create thermally stable high-performance diamond field-effect transistors (FETs). The diamond FET shows a maximum IDS value of -1.35 A/mm, cut-off frequencies f <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;T&lt;/sub> and f <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;MAX&lt;/sub> of 35 GHz and 70 GHz, respectively, and an RF output power density of 2 W/mm at 1 GHz.

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