Low-temperature buffer GaAs MESFET technology for high-speed integrated circuit applications

M.J. Delaney, C.S. Chou, L.E. Larson, J.F. Jensen, D.S. Deakin, April S. Brown, W.W. Hooper, M. A. Thompson, L.G. McCray, S. E. Rosenbaum

IEEE Electron Device Letters · 1989 · 13 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

The fabrication of high-performance digital integrated circuits with low-temperature buffer (LTB) GaAs MESFET technology is presented. Individual 0.2- mu m-gate-length transistors show a g/sub m/ of 600 mS/mm and an extrapolated f/sub T/ of 80 GHz. Backgating and light sensitivity are eliminated with the LTB technology. Static source-coupled FET logic frequency dividers exhibit a maximum clock rate of 22 GHz.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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