Title
High-density polarization-induced 2D electron gases in N-polar pseudomorphic undoped GaN/Al0.85Ga.15N heterostructures on single-crystal AlN substrates
Date Issued
22 August 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cornell University
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
The polarization difference and band offset between Al(Ga)N and GaN induce two-dimensional (2D) free carriers in Al(Ga)N/GaN heterojunctions without any chemical doping. A high-density 2D electron gas (2DEG), analogous to the recently discovered 2D hole gas in a metal-polar structure, is predicted in a N-polar pseudomorphic GaN/Al(Ga)N heterostructure on unstrained AlN. We report the observation of such 2DEGs in N-polar undoped pseudomorphic GaN/AlGaN heterostructures on single-crystal AlN substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. With a high electron density of ∼4.3 × 10 13/cm2 that maintains down to cryogenic temperatures and a room temperature electron mobility of ∼450 cm2/V s, a sheet resistance as low as ∼320 ω / □ is achieved in a structure with an 8 nm GaN layer. These results indicate significant potential of AlN platform for future high-power RF electronics based on N-polar III-nitride high electron mobility transistors.
Volume
121
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85137433472
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 under 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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