Title
Room temperature microwave oscillations in GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes with peak current densities up to 220 kA/cm<sup>2</sup>
Date Issued
05 March 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Yan R.
Verma A.
Islam S.M.
Protasenko V.
Rouvimov S.
Fay P.
Jena D.
Xing H.G.
Cornell University
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
We report the generation of room temperature microwave oscillations from GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes, which exhibit record-high peak current densities. The tunneling heterostructure grown by molecular beam epitaxy on freestanding GaN substrates comprises a thin GaN quantum well embedded between two AlN tunneling barriers. The room temperature current-voltage characteristics exhibit a record-high maximum peak current density of ∼220 kA/cm2. When biased within the negative differential conductance region, microwave oscillations are measured with a fundamental frequency of ∼0.94 GHz, generating an output power of ∼3.0 μW. Both the fundamental frequency and the output power of the oscillator are limited by the external biasing circuit. Using a small-signal equivalent circuit model, the maximum intrinsic frequency of oscillation for these diodes is predicted to be ∼200 GHz. This work represents a significant step towards microwave power generation enabled by resonant tunneling transport, an ultra-fast process that goes beyond the limitations of current III-Nitride high electron mobility transistors.
Volume
112
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85043232664
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Sponsor(s)
The authors thankfully acknowledge the funding assistance from the Office of Naval Research under the DATE MURI Program (Contract: N00014-11-10721, Program Manager: Dr. Paul Maki) and from the National Science Foundation under the NSF-DMREF Program (Contract: 1534303, Program Manager: Dr. John Schlueter).
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