SAW filters Composed of interdigital schottky and ohmic contacts on AlGaN/GaN heterostructures

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 90-92

  Shigekawa, Naoteru ^a   Nishimura, Kazumi ^a   Suemitsu, Tetsuya ^a   Yokoyama, Haruki ^a   Hohkawa, Kohji ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AlGaN GaN; Heterostructure; Interdigital transducer (IDTs); Surface acoustic wave (SAW) Filter

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; OHMIC CONTACTS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TRANSDUCERS;

INTERDIGITAL SCHOTTKY; INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCER;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 33847412288     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2006.889043     Document Type: Article

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