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A fundamental obstacle toward the realization of GaN p-channel transistors is its low hole mobility. Here we investigate the intrinsic phonon-limited mobility of electrons and holes in wurtzite GaN using the ab initio Boltzmann transport…
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Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide-bandgap semiconductor of significant interest for applications in solid-state lighting, power electronics, and radio-frequency amplifiers. An important limitation of this semiconductor is its low intrinsic…
The key obstacle toward realizing integrated gallium nitride (GaN) electronics is its low hole mobility. Here, we explore the possibility of improving the hole mobility of GaN via epitaxial matching to II-IV nitride materials that have…
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Wurtzite gallium nitride (GaN) has great potential for high-frequency and high-power applications due to its excellent electrical and thermal transport properties. However, enhancing the performance of GaN-based power electronics relies on…
The transport of holes through p-doped wurtzite bulk GaN and AlGaN is poor so transport of holes through GaN/AlGaN superlattices has been proposed and investigated theoretically and experimentally with experimental results showing poor…
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GaN has emerged to be a major semiconductor akin to silicon due to its revolutionary impacts in solid state lighting, critically enabled by p-type doping, and high-performance radio-frequency and power electronics. Suffering from…
A thorough understanding of electrical and thermal transport properties of group-III nitride semiconductors is essential for their electronic and thermoelectric applications. Despite extensive previous studies, these transport properties…
Tuning thermal transport in semiconductor nanostructures is of great significance for thermal management in information and power electronics. With excellent transport properties, such as ballistic transport, immunity to point defects and…
In order to justify applicability of the standard approach of perturbation theory for the description of transport phenomena in wide-band polar semiconductors with strong electron-phonon interactions, we have compared dependences of energy…
UV Raman scattering studies show longitudinal optical (LO) mode up to 4th order in wurtzite GaN nanowire system. Frohlich interaction of electron with the long range electrostatic field of ionic bonded GaN gives rise to enhancement in LO…
Gallium nitride (GaN) is a typical wide-bandgap semiconductor with a critical role in a wide range of electronic applications. Ballistic thermal transport at nanoscale hotspots will greatly reduce the performance of a device when its…
Diamond and cBN are two of the most promising ultra-wide-band-gap (UWBG) semiconductors for applications in high-power high-frequency electronic devices. Yet despite extensive studies on carrier transport in these materials, there are large…