Published February 28, 2022
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Theory of drain noise in high electron mobility transistors based on real-space transfer
Abstract
High electron mobility transistors are widely used as microwave amplifiers owing to their low microwave noise figure. Electronic noise in these devices is typically modeled by noise sources at the gate and drain. While consensus exists regarding the origin of the gate noise, that of drain noise is a topic of debate. Here, we report a theory of drain noise as a type of partition noise arising from real-space transfer of hot electrons from the channel to the barrier. The theory accounts for the magnitude and dependencies of the drain temperature and suggests strategies to realize devices with lower noise figure.
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© 2022 Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing. Submitted: 30 August 2021; Accepted: 26 January 2022; Published Online: 28 February 2022. The authors thank Jan Grahn and Junjie Li at Chalmers University of Technology for useful discussions and providing the data shown in Fig. 1. I.E. was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-1745301. A.Y.C. and A.J.M. were supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1911220. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors have no conflicts to disclose. Data Availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.Attached Files
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- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- DGE-1745301
- NSF
- AST-1911220
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