Ananth Saran Yalamarthy - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Accurately sensing AC magnetic field signatures poses a series of challenges to commonly used Hall-effect sensors. In particular, induced voltage and lack of high-frequency spinning methods are bottlenecks in the measurement of AC magnetic fields. We describe a magnetic field measurement technique that can be implemented in two ways: 1) the current driving the Hall-effect sensor is oscillating at ...Show More
Further development of harsh environment electronics capable of uncooled operation under Venus surface atmospheric conditions (~460°C, ~92 bar, corrosive) would enable future missions to the surface of Venus to operate for up to a year. Wide band-gap gallium nitride (GaN) heterostructure devices are attractive candidates for Venus lander missions due to their ability to withstand high-temperature ...Show More
This article presents GaN two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) Hall plates with low residual offset and noise at 3 V input bias. We studied devices made from three consecutive fabrication generations through current spinning offset measurements in a zero-field chamber. When operated above 1 V, the first-generation devices charted high residual offsets 1 mT. We reduced these residual offsets by thre...Show More
Extreme environments such as the Venus atmosphere are among the emerging applications that demand electronics that can withstand high-temperature oxidizing conditions. While wide-bandgap technologies for integrated electronics have been developed so far, they either suffer from gate oxide and threshold voltage (Vth) degradation over temperature, large power supply requirements, or intrinsic base c...Show More
Owing to its wide (3.4 eV) and direct-tunable band gap, gallium nitride (GaN) is an excellent material platform to make UV photo detectors. GaN is also stable in radiation-rich and high-temperature environments, which makes photo detectors fabricated using this material useful for in-situ flame detection and combustion monitoring. In this paper, we use a GaN photo detector to measure ultraviolet (...Show More
Graphene and III-nitride semiconductors are promising materials platforms for the development of high-frequency, high-power electronic devices. Successful integration of these materials, however, requires a detailed understanding of the electrical properties of the graphene/III-nitride interface. In this work, we investigate the interfacial charge carrier transport across the graphene/InAIN interf...Show More
This article describes the characterization of a low-offset Hall plate using the AlGaN/GaN 2-D electron gas (2DEG). A four-phase current spinning technique was used to reduce the sensor offset voltage to values in the range of ~20 nV, which corresponds to a low residual offset of ~3.4 ± 2 μT when supplied with low voltages (0.25-1 V). These offsets are 30x smaller than the values previously report...Show More
The effect of metal contact lengths on current- and voltage-scaled sensitivities and magnetic field offsets of octagonal AlGaN/GaN and InAlN/GaN Hall-effect sensors were examined in this work. The calculations that take into account the shape of the device show that the devices with point-like contacts have the highest current-scaled sensitivity (68.9 V/A/T), while the devices with contacts of equ...Show More
Photodetectors based on the AlGaN/GaN heterostructure suffer from persistent photoconductivity (PPC) in which recovery from the optical stimulus can take days. This behavior is unsuitable for many applications where reliable and consistent optical response is required. This letter presents a method for suppressing PPC in AlGaN/GaN photodetectors by employing device suspension and in situ heating. ...Show More
IITMSAT is a student satellite being developed with a mission to measure charged particle energies and fluxes, and to study the precipitation of these particles from the Van Allen radiation belts. The Space-based Proton Electron Energy Detector (SPEED) is the payload detector aboard IITMSAT which is designed to carry out the mission of charge particle detection and energy measurement in low earth ...Show More
In the referenced paper [1], the micro-photograph shown in Fig. 1 (b) is of a representative HEMT. The measured HEMT of the paper has the following dimensions: ( ${\mathrm {LG}} =5\mu {\mathrm{ m}}, {\mathrm {W}} = 20\mu {\mathrm{ m}}, {\mathrm {LGS}} = {\mathrm {LGD}} = 6\mu {\mathrm{ m}}$ ). Fig. 1 has to be replaced with the corrected figure shown below:Show More