An improved passive inductor microwave performance on gallium nitride substrates using ion implantation technology

作者:Wu Jia Shuan; Wu Chia Song; Lin Yung Hsiang; Chiu Hsien Chin*; Lin Ray Ming
来源:International Journal of Electronics, 2010, 97(6): 695-701.
DOI:10.1080/00207211003646951

摘要

Recently, gallium nitride (GaN) substrates have been widely used in high-power monolithic microwave integrated circuit applications, which work because of the high breakdown voltage associated with the wider energy band-gap. The objective of this article is to investigate the spiral inductors that have been used to implant various ions on GaN substrates, demonstrated separately by N+, Mg+ and O+. The measured substrate resistance (Rsub) results were 85 and 360 for undoped GaN substrates and N+ doped substrates, respectively. This ion implantation technology could substantially improve the substrate resistance and provide a higher quality factor value (Q-value) for spiral inductors. The low parasitic effect extracted by the scattering parameter (S-parameter) for various substrates indicated that the spiral inductor value can be applied stably at high frequency. Consequently, the high GaN substrate quality adopting high-isolation ion implantation technology, demonstrates its huge potential for high-power and high-efficiency amplifier applications.

  • 出版日期2010
  • 单位长春大学