Abstract
We find that the low-frequency 1/ $f$ noise of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs before and after 1.8-MeV proton irradiation is more consistent with a carrier-number fluctuation model that includes a non-constant defect-energy distribution ${D}_{t}$ ( ${E}_{f}$ ) than with the Hooge mobility fluctuation model. A strongly varying ${D}_{t}$ ( ${E}_{f}$ ) in these devices is confirmed by measurements of the voltage and temperature dependence of the noise. First-order estimates of effective border-trap density before and after 1.8-MeV proton irradiation are obtained for commercial and research-grade devices using a simple number-fluctuation model. The input-referred noise magnitude of GaN/AlGaN HEMTs decreases at biases that are much more positive than threshold because the gated region of the HEMT comprises a relatively small portion of the channel, and the noise is attenuated by the voltage divider formed by the gated and ungated regions of the channel.
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