Gn. Dash et Sp. Pati, STUDIES ON THE PROSPECTS OF GAINAS AND GAINASP FOR DOUBLE-DRIFT REGION HETEROSTRUCTURE IMPATTS, Applied physics. A, Solids and surfaces, 58(2), 1994, pp. 211-217
Double heterojunctions having the material combinations InP/GaInAs/InP
, GaAs/GaInAs/GaAs and InP/GaInAsP/InP have been studied to assess the
ir potential for double-drift region (DDR) IMPATT diodes. An accurate
and realistic computer simulation program has been framed and used for
the de and high-frequency analysis of the DDRs. The analysis is carri
ed out both in IMPATT (IMPact Avalanche Transit Time) and MITATT (MIxe
d Tunnelling Avalanche Transit Time) modes. Our results indicate that
the GaAs/GaInAs/GaAs DDR would provide the best mm-wave performance up
to sufficiently high frequencies. Further, the performance of the DDR
diodes is observed to deteriorate at high frequency of operation due
to phase distortion introduced by tunnel injected current, which is fo
und to be the least in the case of GaAs/GaInAs/GaAs DDR leading to the
best performance of this DDR amongst the three.