Low electron mobility of field-effect transistor determined by modulated magnetoresistance

Abstract

Room temperature magnetotransport experiments were carried out on field-effect transistors in magnetic fields up to 10 T. It is shown that measurements of the transistor magnetoresistance and its first derivative with respect to the gate voltage allow the derivation of the electron mobility in the gated part of the transistor channel, while the access/contact resistances and the transistor gate length need not be known. We demonstrate the potential of this method using GaN and Si field-effect transistors and discuss its importance for mobility measurements in transistors with nanometer gate length.