Title
N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes
Date Issued
05 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cho Y.J.
Ho S.T.
Xing H.G.
Jena D.
Cornell University
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes are realized on a single-crystal N-polar GaN bulk substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth. The room-temperature current-voltage characteristics reveal a negative differential conductance (NDC) region with a peak tunneling current of 6.8 ± 0.8 kA/cm2 at a forward bias of ∼8 V. Under reverse bias, the polarization-induced threshold voltage is measured at ∼-4 V. These resonant and threshold voltages are well explained with the polarization field, which is opposite to that of the metal-polar counterpart, confirming the N-polarity of the resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs). When the device is biased in the NDC-region, electronic oscillations are generated in the external circuit, attesting to the robustness of the resonant tunneling phenomenon. In contrast to metal-polar RTDs, N-polar structures have the emitter on the top of the resonant tunneling cavity. As a consequence, this device architecture opens up the possibility of seamlessly interfacing-via resonant tunneling injection- A wide range of exotic materials with III-nitride semiconductors, providing a route towards unexplored device physics.
Volume
117
Issue
14
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Nano-procesos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092295841
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank Zexuan Zhang for useful discussion. This work was supported in part by AFOSR (No. FA9550–17-1–0048), NSF DMREF (No. 1534303), NSF RAISE TAQs (No. 1839196), the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP), NSF NewLaw (No. EFMA-1741694), and ONR (Nos. N00014–20-1–2176 and N00014–17-1–2414). This work made use of the shared facilities that are supported through Nos. NSF ECCS-1542081, NSF DMR-1719875, and NSF DMR-1338010.
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