CORRELATION BETWEEN LIGHT-EMISSION AND CURRENTS IN PSEUDOMORPHIC HEMTS

Authors
COVA P FANTINI F MANFREDI M
Citation
P. Cova et al., CORRELATION BETWEEN LIGHT-EMISSION AND CURRENTS IN PSEUDOMORPHIC HEMTS, Microelectronics and reliability, 38(4), 1998, pp. 507-510
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Microelectronics and reliability → ACNP
ISSN journal
00262714
Volume
38
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
507 - 510
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-2714(1998)38:4<507:CBLACI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
In this paper we demonstrate the straight correlation between the inte grated light emitted and the DC currents in GaAs-based pseudomorphic H EMTs biased at high drain voltage, when, due to hot electrons, impact ionization takes place. By means of electrical and optical measurement s, we found three different recombination mechanisms, which originate the light emission in three different energy ranges. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.