The authors have developed a novel sub-quarter-micrometre WSi sidewall
gate GaAs MESFET (SIG-FFT) fabrication process. In this process, usin
g WSi sidewalls as gate electrodes, the gate length is controlled only
by the thickness of a WSi thin mm deposited by sputtering. and sub-qu
arter-micrometre gales can be fabricated easily without using photolit
hography. The 0.15 mu m-gate SIG-FET has exhibited f(t) = 50GHz and f(
max) = 120GHz.