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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…

Using first-principles density functional theory calculations in combination with the climbing-image nudged elastic band method, we investigated the adsorption, desorption, and diffusion of atomic chlorine and molecular chlorine on the Al…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Sanjay Nayak , Nikolai Andrianov , Thomas Gruhn , Joaquin Miranda

Deep ultraviolet (UV) optical emission below 250 nm (~5 eV) in semiconductors is traditionally obtained from high aluminum containing AlGaN alloy quantum wells. It is shown here that high-quality epitaxial ultrathin binary GaN quantum disks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 SM Islam , Vladimir Protasenko , Kevin Lee , Sergei Rouvimov , Jai Verma , Huili , Xing , Debdeep Jena

Thanks to its high refractive index contrast, band gap and polarization mismatch compared to GaN, In0.17Al0.83N layers lattice-matched to GaN are an attractive solution for applications such as distributed Bragg reflectors, ultraviolet…

Attaining low resistivity AlGaN layers is the keystone to improve the efficiency of light emitting devices in the ultraviolet spectral range. Here, we present a microstructural analysis of Ge-doped AlGaN samples with Al mole fraction from…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-29 C. Bougerol , E. Robin , E. Di Russo , E. Bellet-Amalric , V. Grenier , A. Ajay , L. Rigutti , E. Monroy

In this letter, N2 and forming gas (FG) were used during ohmic contact annealing of InAlN/GaN HEMTs on Si. It is found that N2 annealing offers lower ohmic contact resistance (RC) while FG annealing features lower sheet resistance (Rsheet).…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Peng Cui , Meng Jia , Guangyang Lin , Jie Zhang , Lars Gundlach , Yuping Zeng

Alloy scattering in random AlGaN alloys drastically reduces the electron mobility and therefore the power-electronics figure of merit. As a result, Al compositions greater than 75% are required to obtain even a two-fold increase of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Nick Pant , Woncheol Lee , Nocona Sanders , Emmanouil Kioupakis

Electrochemical water electrolysis, which produces clean energy carriers to mitigate carbon emissions, lacks suitable, low-cost electrodes for efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline water splitting. To address this challenge,…

Using full potential density functional calculations within local density approximation (LDA), we found strain tunable band gaps of two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal BN (h-BN) and AlN (h-AlN) by application of in-plane homogeneous biaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-15 Harihar Behera , Gautam Mukhopadhyay

Next-generation high-power radio-frequency (RF) devices increasingly demand transistors that operate efficiently with high gain at high frequencies. High-aluminum-content ultra-wide-bandgap (UWBG) AlGaN alloys have shown great potential for…

Developing high quality GaN/dielectric interfaces is a fundamental step for manufacturing GaN vertical power transistors. In this paper, we quantitatively investigate the effect of planar etching treatment and trench formation on the…

We present a dry surface treatment combining atomic layer etching and deposition (ALE and ALD) to mitigate dielectric loss in fully fabricated superconducting quantum devices formed from aluminum thin films on silicon. The treatment,…

We report the first plasma atomic layer etching (ALE) process for diamond using a cyclic plasma sequence composed of two separated steps: oxygen surface modification and krypton ion removal. The process is implemented in an inductively…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Duc Duy Tran , Cedric Mannequin , Aboulaye Traore , Masahiro Sasaki , Etienne Gheeraert

We report that an ultra-thin, post-oxidized aluminum epilayer grown on the AlGaAs surface works as a high-quality tunnel barrier for spin injection from a ferromagnetic metal to a semiconductor. One of the key points of the present…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-26 N. Nishizawa , H. Munekata

A method to fabricate GaAs microcavities using only a soft mask with an electrolithographic pattern in an inductively coupled plasma etching is presented. A careful characterization of the fabrication process pinpointing the main routes for…

To realize the full spectrum of advantages that the III-nitride materials system offers, the demonstration of p-channel III-nitride based devices is valuable. Authors report the first p-type field effect transistor (pFET) based on an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Athith Krishna , Aditya Raj , Nirupam Hatui , Onur Koksaldi , Raina Jang , Stacia Keller , Umesh Mishra

We investigate Tamm plasmon (TP) modes in a metal/semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) interface. A thin Ag (silver) layer with an optimized thickness (~ 55 nm from simulation) was deposited on nanoporous GaN DBRs fabricated…

We report on the electronic properties of GaN$(1\bar{1}00)$ and $(0001)$ surfaces after three different and subsequent device processing compatible cleaning steps: HCl etching, annealing at $400$ $^\circ$C in N$_2$ atmosphere, and O$_2$…

We report the influence of the AlN interlayer thickness (0-15 nm) on the photovoltaic properties of Al0.37In0.63N on Si heterojunction solar cells deposited by radio frequency sputtering. The poor junction band alignment and the presence of…

Scaling down the GaN channel in a double heterostructure AlGaN/GaN/AlGaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) to the thicknesses on the order of or even smaller than the Bohr radius confines electrons in the quantum well even at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 G. Simin , M. Shur