The characteristics of a ZnO/ZnMgO heterostructure field-effect transistor (HFET) were reported in this paper. The HFET was grown on
-plane sapphire substrate by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) technology
and was fabricated by a conventional photolithography technique combined with wet etching. The experiment results indicated that the HFET was an n-channel depletion type with a transconductance of 180 Smm
-1
and mobility of 182 cm
2
V
-1
s
-1
at room temperature. The property was limited by leakage current through the SiO
2
gate insulator. At low temperature
the performance was improved due to the reduced leakage current.
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