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Gallium nitride (GaN) as a wide-band gap material has been widely used in solid-state lighting. Thanks to its high nonlinearity and high refractive index contrast, GaN-on-insulator (GaNOI) is also a promising platform for nonlinear optical…

In this study, by means of classical molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the thermal transport properties of hexagonal single-layer, zinc-blend and wurtzite phases of BN, AlN, and GaN crystals, which are very promising for the…

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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…

We report experimental and computational studies of thermal transport properties in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulated molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) structure using refined optothermal Raman techniques, and reveal very high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Fan Ye , Qingchang Liu , Baoxing Xu , Philip X. -L. Feng , Xian Zhang

Double barrier GaN/AlN resonant tunneling heterostructures have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on the (0001) plane of commercially available bulk GaN substrates. Resonant tunneling diodes were fabricated; room temperature…

Thermal management materials are of critical importance for engineering miniaturized electronic devices, where theoretical design of such materials demands the evaluation of thermal conductivities which are numerically expensive. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-15 Yixuan Zhang , Chen Shen , Teng Long , Hongbin Zhang

Field-effect transistors (FETs) predominantly utilize electrons for signal processing in modern electronics. In contrast, phonon-based field-effect transistors (PFETs)-which employ phonons for active thermal management-remain markedly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 H. F. Feng , Z. Y. Xu , B. Liu , Zhi-Xin Guo

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Jie-Cheng Chen , Joshua Leveillee , Chris G. Van de Walle , Feliciano Giustino

GaN is a wide-bandgap semiconductor used in high-efficiency LEDs and solar cells. The solid is produced industrially at high chemical purities by deposition from a vapour phase, and oxygen may be included at this stage. Oxidation represents…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-14 Adam J. Jackson , Aron Walsh

As the characteristic dimensions of modern top-down devices are getting smaller, such devices reach their operational limits given by quantum mechanics. Thus, two-dimensional (2D) structures appear as one of the best solutions to meet the…

Electrical properties of contact to p-type nitride semiconductor devices, based on gallium nitride were simulated by ab initio and by drift-diffusion calculations. The contact electric properties are shown to be dominated by electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Konrad Sakowski , Paweł Strak , Stanislaw Krukowski

We report a polarization-induced 2D electron gas (2DEG) at an epitaxial AlBN/GaN heterojunction grown on a SiC substrate. Using this 2DEG in a long conducting channel, we realize ultra-thin barrier AlBN/GaN high electron mobility…

In the emergent field of quantum technology, the ability to manage heat at the nanoscale and in cryogenic conditions is crucial for enhancing device performance in terms of noise, coherence, and sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate the active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Federico Paolucci , Federica Bianco , Francesco Giazotto , Stefano Roddaro

We present a comprehensive investigation of self-heating in gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) through technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulations and phonon Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. With…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Yang Shen , Bing-Yang Cao

With thermal issues becoming a major challenge to the development of integrated circuits (ICs), high-thermal-conductivity (high-TC) materials are gaining interest from both the industry and academia, especially for high-density…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Xufei Guo , Zirou Chen , Zifeng Huang , Yuxiang Wang , Jinwen Liu , Zhe Cheng

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

Oxidation of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials has proven advantageous in creating oxide/2D material heterostructures, opening the door for a new paradigm of low-power electronic devices. Gallium (II) sulfide ($\beta$-GaS), a hexagonal…

Boron arsenide (BAs) single crystals had been previously reported to have thermal conductivity of 1500 W/mK at room temperature. Now we achieved thermal conductivity above 2100 W/mK at room temperature in BAs crystals due to much lower…

III-Nitride light emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used in a range of high efficiency lighting and display applications, which have enabled significant energy savings in the last decade. Despite the wide application of GaN LEDs, transport…

Wide and ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors lie at the heart of next-generation high-power, high-frequency electronics. Here, we report the growth of ultrawide-bandgap boron nitride (BN) thin films on wide-bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) by…