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A 6x6 array of symmetrical V/Al/AlOx/Al/V Superconducting Tunnel Junctions (STJs) was fabricated. The base electrode is a high quality epitaxial film with a residual resistance ratio (RRR) of ~30. The top film is polycrystalline with an RRR…
Graphene-insulator-graphene vertical tunneling structures are discussed from a theoretical perspective. Momentum conservation in such devices leads to highly nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, which with gates on the tunnel junction…
We report the observation and micromagnetic analysis of current-driven magnetization switching in nanoscale ring-shaped magnetic tunnel junctions. When the electric current density exceeds a critical value of the order of $6\times…
N-polar (In,Ga)N/GaN quantum wells prepared on freestanding GaN substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy at conventional growth temperatures of about 650 {\deg}C do not exhibit any detectable luminescence even at 10 K. In the…
We demonstrate gate-tunable resonant tunneling and negative differential resistance between two rotationally aligned bilayer graphene sheets separated by bilayer WSe2. We observe large interlayer current densities of 2 uA/um2 and 2.5…
We have investigated metallic break junctions of the heavy-fermion compound UPd2Al3 at low temperatures between 0.1K and 9K and in magnetic fields up to 8T. Both the current-voltage I(V) characteristics and the dV/dI (V) spectra clearly…
This study demonstrates 3D monolithic integration of amorphous indium-gallium-zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) on Gallium Nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) in a cascode configuration, achieving high…
Traditionally, photodetector is based on solid materials constructed PN junction, which needs many delicate growth technologies. Herein, we demonstrate the feasibility of polarized liquid triggered photodetector where the liquid is…
We have investigated ion current rectification properties of a recently prepared bipolar nanofluidic diode. This device is based on a single conically shaped nanopore in a polymer film whose pore walls contain a sharp boundary between…
We calculate the subgap current in planar superconducting tunnel junctions with thin-film diffusive leads. It is found that the subharmonic gap structure of the tunnel current scales with an effective tunneling transparency which may exceed…
We have demonstrated that depletion/enhancement-mode b-Ga2O3 on insulator field-effect transistors can achieve a record high drain current density of 1.5/1.0 A/mm by utilizing a highly doped b-Ga2O3 nano-membrane as the channel. b-Ga2O3 on…
Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…
We propose three-terminal spin devices with graphene nanoribbons (terminals) and a graphene flake (channel) to generate a highly spin-polarized current without an external magnetic field or ferromagnetic electrodes. The Hubbard repulsion…
Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) has a huge potential on the power device for its high breakdown filed and good transport properties. beta-Ga2O3 as the thermodynamics stable phase, has been demonstrated to form high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)…
Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…
Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) materials hold immense potential for high-power RF electronics and deep ultraviolet photonics. Among these, AlGaN emerges as a promising candidate, offering a tunable bandgap from 3.4 eV (GaN) to 6.1 eV (AlN) and…
We investigate the transport of holes through $AlAs/In_{.10}Ga_{.90}As$ resonant tunneling diodes which utilize $In_xGa_{1-x}As$ prewells in the emitter with $x=0,.10,$ and $.20$. The data show an increase in peak current and bias at…
Magnetic $p$-$n$ junction diodes are fabricated to investigate spin-polarized electron transport. The injection of spin-polarized electrons in a semiconductor is achieved by driving a current from a ferromagnetic injector (Fe), into a bulk…
Efforts to achieve efficient injection of spin-polarized electrons into a semiconductor, a key prerequisite for developing electronics that exploit the electron's spin degree of freedom, have so far met with limited success. Here we report…
We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…