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Performance of Sapphire and Diamond based HEMT for RF Applications

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Publication Date2020-02-01
AuthorsShweta, Narendra Yadava, R. K. Chauhan
InstitutionsDeen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology

This paper demonstrates the performance comparison of Sapphire (Al <sub xmlns:mml=ā€œhttp://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathMLā€ xmlns:xlink=ā€œhttp://www.w3.org/1999/xlinkā€&gt;2&lt;/sub> O <sub xmlns:mml=ā€œhttp://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathMLā€ xmlns:xlink=ā€œhttp://www.w3.org/1999/xlinkā€&gt;3&lt;/sub> ) and Diamond substrate based High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT). The parameters used in the performance comparison includes: transfer characteristics, output characteristics and transconductance. High drain current of Sapphire makes availability for Radio Frequency (RF) application up to millimetre waves (30GHz-300GHz) and also high thermal conductivity of Diamond (2000W/ m.K) make withstand with high temperature. Transconductance of Diamond is (-350μS) and of sapphire is (-375μS) as compare to Gallium arsenide (-300μS). A study of various parameters like breakdown voltage and sub threshold slope also has been done. All these simulation work is performed using Silvaco ATLAS 2D simulator.

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