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Enhanced interband tunnel injection of holes into a PN junction is demonstrated using P-GaN/InGaN/N-GaN tunnel junctions with a specific resistivity of 1.2 X 10-4 {\Omega} cm2. The design methodology and low-temperature characteristic of…
Blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) consisting of a buried n+-p+ GaN tunnel junction, (In,Ga)N multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and a n+-GaN top layer are grown on single-crystal Ga-polar n+-GaN bulk wafers by plasma-assisted molecular beam…
We report on the design, fabrication, and characterization of GaN interband tunnel junction showing forward tunneling characteristics. We have achieved very high forward tunneling currents (153 mA/cm2 at 10 mV, and 17.7 A/cm2 peak current)…
We show that GdN nanoislands can enhance inter-band tunneling in GaN PN junctions by several orders of magnitude, enabling low optical absorption low-resistance tunnel junctions (specific resistivity 1.3 X 10-3 {\Omega}-cm2) for various…
We show evidence that tunnel junctions (TJs) in GaN grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy are dominated by trap-assisted (Poole-Frenkel) tunneling. This stems from observations of the careful optimized doping for the TJs. Especially…
Ultra violet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs) face critical limitations in both the injection efficiency and light extraction efficiency due to the resistive and absorbing p-type contact layers. In this work, we investigate the design and…
We report on the design and demonstration of polarization-engineered GaN/InGaN/GaN tunnel junction diodes with high current density and low tunneling turn-on voltage. Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) calculations were used to model and…
We report on tunnel-injected deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs) configured with a polarization engineered Al0.75Ga0.25N/ In0.2Ga0.8N tunnel junction structure. Tunnel-injected UV LED structure enables n-type contacts for both…
We report GaN n++/p++ interband tunnel junctions with repeatable negative differential resistance and low resistance. Reverse and forward tunneling current densities were observed to increase as Si and Mg doping concentrations were…
N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes are realized on single-crystal N-polar GaN bulk substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth. The room-temperature current-voltage characteristics reveal a negative differential…
We carefully investigate three important effects including postgrowth activation annealing, delta ({\delta}) dose and p+-GaN layer thickness and experimentally demonstrate their influence on the electrical properties of GaN p-n homojunction…
GaN/InGaN microLEDs are a very promising technology for next generation displays. Switching control transistors and their integration are key components in achieving high-performance, efficient displays. Monolithic integration of microLEDs…
We report the influence of the In mole fraction on the material and electrical characteristics of p-i-n InxGa1-xN homojunctions (x = 0.10-0.40) synthesized by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy on GaN-on-sapphire substrates. Junctions…
N-polar GaN p-n diodes are realized on single-crystal N-polar GaN bulk wafers by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth. The current-voltage characteristics show high-quality rectification and electroluminescence characteristics with…
Recently, the use of bottom-TJ geometry in LEDs, which achieves N-polar-like alignment of polarization fields in conventional metal-polar orientations, has enabled enhancements in LED performance due to improved injection efficiency. Here,…
Polarization engineered interband tunnel junctions (TJs) are integrated in nanowire ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs). A ~6V reduction in turn-on voltage is achieved by the integration of tunnel junction at the base of…
V-pit-defects in GaN-based light-emitting diodes induced by dislocations are considered beneficial to electroluminescence because they relax the strain in InGaN quantum wells and also enhance the hole lateral injection through sidewall of…
Electrical excitation of light using inelastic electron tunneling is a promising approach for the realization of ultra-compact on-chip optical sources with high modulation bandwidth. However, the practical implementation of these nanoscale…
We report the first realization of molecular beam epitaxy grown strained GaN quantum well field-effect transistors on single-crystal bulk AlN substrates. The fabricated double heterostructure FETs exhibit a two- dimensional electron gas…
Better wall plug efficiency of deep-ultraviolet light emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) requires simultaneous low resistivity p-type and n-type contacts, which is a challenging problem. In this study, the co-optimization of p-InGaN and n- AlGaN…