A voltage-controlled ring oscillator using InP full enhancement-mode HEMT logic

Du Rui; Dai Yang; Chen Yanling; Yang Fuhua

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/30/3/035001

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A voltage-controlled ring oscillator using InP full enhancement-mode HEMT logic

Du Rui, Dai Yang, Chen Yanling and Yang Fuhua

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DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/30/3/035001

Abstract: A voltage-controlled ring oscillator (VCO) based on a full enhancement-mode InAlAs/InGaAs/InP high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) logic is proposed. An enhancement-mode HEMT (E-HEMT) is fabricated, whose threshold is demonstrated to be 10 mV. The model of the E-HEMT is established and used in the SPICE simulation of the VCO. The result proves that the full E-HEMT logic technology can be applied to the VCO. And compared with the HEMT DCFL technology, the complexity of our fabrication process is reduced and the reliability is improved.

Key words: VCO

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Received: 18 August 2015 Revised: 23 October 2008 Online: Published: 01 March 2009

A voltage-controlled ring oscillator (VCO) based on a full enhancement-mode InAlAs/InGaAs/InP high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) logic is proposed. An enhancement-mode HEMT (E-HEMT) is fabricated, whose threshold is demonstrated to be 10 mV. The model of the E-HEMT is established and used in the SPICE simulation of the VCO. The result proves that the full E-HEMT logic technology can be applied to the VCO. And compared with the HEMT DCFL technology, the complexity of our fabrication process is reduced and the reliability is improved.

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