Title
Polarization-induced 2D hole gases in pseudomorphic undoped GaN/AlN heterostructures on single-crystal AlN substrates
Date Issued
18 October 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Zhang Z.
Chaudhuri R.
Cho Y.
Protasenko V.
Nomoto K.
Lee K.
Toita M.
Xing H.G.
Jena D.
Cornell University
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
A high-conductivity two-dimensional (2D) hole gas is the enabler of wide-bandgap p-channel transistors. Compared to commonly used AlN template substrates with high dislocation densities, the recently available single-crystal AlN substrates are promising to boost the speed and power handling capability of p-channel transistors based on GaN/AlN 2D hole gases (2DHGs) thanks to the much lower dislocation densities and the absence of thermal boundary resistance. Using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, we report the observation of polarization-induced high-density 2DHGs in undoped pseudomorphic GaN/AlN heterostructures on the single-crystal AlN substrates with high structural quality and atomic steps on the surface. The high-density 2DHG persists down to cryogenic temperatures with a record high mobility exceeding 280 cm2/V s and a density of 2.2 × 1013/cm2 at 10 K. These results shed light on aspects of improving 2D hole mobilities and indicate significant potential of GaN/AlN 2DHG grown on bulk AlN substrates for future high performance wide-bandgap p-channel transistors.
Volume
119
Issue
16
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85117451944
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Sponsor(s)
The authors at Cornell University acknowledge financial support from Asahi Kasei, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR)—a NSF MRSEC program (No. DMR-1719875); ULTRA, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under Award No. DE-SC0021230; and AFOSR Grant No. FA9550-20-1-0148. This work uses the CESI Shared Facilities partly sponsored by NSF No. MRI DMR-1631282 and Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC).
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