Підтримка:Authors are very thankful to Research Fellow Svetlana G. Bunchuk for her scrupulous attitude towards preparation of the samples, and Dr. Mikolay V. Sakhno for useful discussions. This work was partly supported by Ukrainian Program of Basic Researches (grant No. 11/14-H) and joint project of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (grant No. 01-02-2012) and Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (grant No. 15.1).
Un-cooled AlGaN/GaN-based heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFET) designed on sapphire (0001) substrates were considered as 140 GHz direct detection detectors without any specially attached antennas. The noise equivalent power (NEP) of these detectors was ~ 10⁻¹⁰ W/Hz¹/² in the observed radiation frequency range at ambient temperatures. It has been shown that the ultimate value for the AlGaN/GaN HFET detectors (in 0.25-μm technology) can reach NEPopt ≈ 6•10⁻¹² W/Hz¹/² , and it is 3-fold lower than that for Si MOSFET (in 0.35-μm technology).