Depletion and enhancement modes

Depletion and enhancement modes

In field-effect transistors (FETs), depletion mode and enhancement mode are two major transistor types, corresponding to whether the transistor is in an ON state or an OFF state at zero gate–source voltage.

Enhancement-mode MOSFETs are the common switching elements in most MOS logic families. These devices are OFF at zero gate–source voltage, and can be turned on by pulling the gate voltage in the direction of the drain voltage; that is, toward the VDD supply rail, which is positive for NMOS logic and negative for PMOS logic.

In a depletion-mode MOSFET, the device is normally ON at zero gate–source voltage. Such devices are used as load "resistors" in logic circuits (in depletion-load NMOS logic, for example). For N-type depletion-load devices, the threshold voltage might be about –3 V, so it could be turned off by pulling the gate 3 V negative (the drain, by comparison, is more positive than the source in NMOS). In PMOS, the polarities are reversed.

The mode can be determined by the sign of the threshold voltage (gate voltage relative to source voltage at the point where an inversion layer just forms in the channel): for an N-type FET, enhancement-mode devices have positive thresholds, and depletion-mode devices have negative threholds; for a P-type FET, enhancement-mode negative, depletion-mode positive.[1][2]

Junction field-effect transistors (JFETs) are typically depletion mode, since the gate junction would forward bias if the gate were taken more than a little from source toward drain voltage. Such devices are used in gallium-arsenide and germanium chips, where it is difficult to make an oxide insulator.

Alternative terminology

Some sources says "depletion type" and "enhancement type" for the device types as described in this article as "depletion mode" and "enhancement mode", and apply the "mode" terms for which direction the gate–source voltage differs from zero.[3] Moving the gate voltage toward the drain voltage "enhances" the conduction in the channel, so this defines the enhancement mode of operation, while moving the gate away from the drain depletes the channel, so this defines depletion mode.

Enhancement-load and depletion-load logic families

Depletion-load NMOS logic refers to the logic family that became dominant in silicon VLSI in the latter half of the 1970s; the process supported both enhancement-mode and depletion-mode transistors, and typical logic circuits used enhancement-mode devices as pull-down switches and depletion-mode devices as loads, or pull-ups. Logic families built in older processes that did not support depletion-mode transistors were retrospectively referred to as enhancement-load logic, or as saturated-load logic, since the enhancement-mode transistors were typically connected with gate to the VDD supply and operated in the saturation region (sometimes the gates are biased to a higher VGG voltage and operated in the linear region, for a better power–delay product, but the loads then take more area).[4] Alternatively, rather than static logic gates, dynamic logic such as four-phase logic was sometimes used in processes that did not have depletion-mode transistors available.

For example, the 1971 Intel 4004 used enhancement-load silicon-gate PMOS logic, and the 1976 Zilog Z80 used depletion-load silicon-gate NMOS.

References

  1. ^ William J. Dally and John W. Poulton (1998). Digital systems engineering. Cambridge University Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780521592925. http://books.google.com/books?id=oDWRAxCU-g8C&pg=PA158. 
  2. ^ Ed Da Silva (2001). High frequency and microwave engineering. Newnes. p. 290. ISBN 9780750650465. http://books.google.com/books?id=eloRn9yF3XoC&pg=PA290. 
  3. ^ John J. Adams (2001). Mastering Electronics Workbench. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 192. ISBN 9780071344838. http://books.google.com/books?id=M0vlKAn8dIYC&pg=PA192. 
  4. ^ Jerry C. Whitaker (2005). Microelectronics (2nd ed.). CRC Press. p. 6-7–6-10. ISBN 9780849333910. http://books.google.com/books?id=n-fh3wIPZbkC&pg=SA6-PA8. 

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