Title
N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes
Date Issued
05 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
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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