On the InxGa1−xAs channel noise in InP HEMTs from 4 K to 300 K
Abstract
The InP high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) is indispensable for low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) in radio astronomy and quantum computing. The composition of the InxGa1−xAs channel in InP HEMT is known to influence the LNA noise performance. However, the various physical mechanisms responsible for noise generation are not fully characterized and understood. Here, we investigate the InxGa1−xAs channel noise from 4 K to 300 K for 100-nm gate-length InP HEMTs with channel indium content of 53\%, 60\% and 70\%. Channel noise was quantified by extracting the equivalent drain noise temperature Td using both on-wafer and LNA-based measurements, covering 40-300 K and 4-40 K, respectively. The 60\% indium channel InP HEMT exhibited the lowest channel noise across the full temperature range. The Td extracted from on-wafer characterization was found to obey a parabolic temperature dependence which predicted the Td at 4 K for all InP HEMTs in good agreement with LNA-based measurements. By expressing the channel noise as the sum of one thermal and one excess noise term, it was found that the former increased linearly with ambient temperature and dominated at 300 K. The channel noise at 4 K was determined by the excess noise term and exhibited a non-monotonic dependence on the channel indium content in the InP HEMT. The results suggest that the excess noise in the InP HEMT originates not only from temperature-independent shot noise but also from impact ionization and real-space transfer noise.
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BibTeX
@misc{li2026inxga1xas,
title = {{On the $\mathrmIn_xGa_1-xAs$ channel noise in InP HEMTs from 4 K to 300 K}},
author = {Junjie Li and Justin H. Chen and Austin J. Minnich and Jan Grahn},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.04757},
eprint = {2607.04757},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04757},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On the In_xGa_1−xAs channel noise in InP HEMTs from 4 K to 300 K
AU - Junjie Li
AU - Justin H. Chen
AU - Austin J. Minnich
AU - Jan Grahn
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.04757
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04757
AB - The InP high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) is indispensable for low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) in radio astronomy and quantum computing. The composition of the In_xGa_1−xAs channel in InP HEMT is known to influence the LNA noise performance. However, the various physical mechanisms responsible for noise generation are not fully characterized and understood. Here, we investigate the In_xGa_1−xAs channel noise from 4 K to 300 K for 100-nm gate-length InP HEMTs with channel indium content of 53\%, 60\% and 70\%. Channel noise was quantified by extracting the equivalent drain noise temperature T_d using both on-wafer and LNA-based measurements, covering 40-300 K and 4-40 K, respectively. The 60\% indium channel InP HEMT exhibited the lowest channel noise across the full temperature range. The T_d extracted from on-wafer characterization was found to obey a parabolic temperature dependence which predicted the T_d at 4 K for all InP HEMTs in good agreement with LNA-based measurements. By expressing the channel noise as the sum of one thermal and one excess noise term, it was found that the former increased linearly with ambient temperature and dominated at 300 K. The channel noise at 4 K was determined by the excess noise term and exhibited a non-monotonic dependence on the channel indium content in the InP HEMT. The results suggest that the excess noise in the InP HEMT originates not only from temperature-independent shot noise but also from impact ionization and real-space transfer noise.
ER -