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Heat generated in gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) is often concentrated in nanoscale regions and must dissipate through multiple heterostructures. However, the influence of non-uniform heat sources on the…
The increasing demand for high-voltage and high-power electronic applications has intensified the search for novel ultrawide bandgap (UWB) semiconductors. Alkaline earth stannates possess wide band gaps and exhibit the highest…
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).…
AlN-GaN heterostructures are central to high-power and high-frequency electronics, including RF devices, power converters, and AI accelerators. An intermediate Al1-xGaxN (AlGaN) layer is often present, either unintentionally during growth…
ScxAl1-xN is an emerging III-nitride material known for its high piezoelectric coefficient and ferroelectric properties. Integration of wide-bandgap ScxAl1-xN with GaN is particularly attractive for quantum photonic devices. Achieving low…
In this work, we propose a new Stepped Oxide Hetero-Material Trench (SOHMT) power MOSFET with three sections in the trench gate (an N+ poly gate sandwiched between two P+ poly gates) and having different gate oxide thicknesses (increasing…
Aluminum nitride (AlN) is an emerging material for integrated quantum photonics with its excellent linear and nonlinear optical properties. In particular, its second-order nonlinear susceptibility $\chi^{(2)}$ allows single-photon…
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…
Short-term reliability and robustness of 110 nm AlN/GaN HEMTs has been evaluated by means of off-state, semi-on state and on-state step stress tests on devices having different gate-drain distance, LGD. While breakdown voltages and critical…
To achieve high device performance and high reliability for the gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), efficient heat dissipation is important but remains challenging. Enormous efforts have been made to…
The three dimensional carrier confinement in GaN nanodiscs embedded in GaN/AlGaN nanowires and its effect on their photoluminescence properties is analyzed for Al concentrations between x = 0.08 and 1. Structural analysis by high resolution…
This paper presents an analysis of GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) using both TCAD simulation and experimental characterization. The energy band structure was studied using Nextnano simulation software to observe…
Nanoscale semiconductor materials have been extensively investigated as the channel materials of transistors for energy-efficient low-power logic switches to enable scaling to smaller dimensions. On the opposite end of transistor…
High-efficient heat dissipation plays critical role for high-power-density electronics. Experimental synthesis of ultrahigh thermal conductivity boron arsenide (BAs, 1300 W m-1K-1) cooling substrates into the wide-bandgap semiconductor of…
Nanostructures based on buried interfaces and heterostructures are at the heart of modern semiconductor electronics as well as future devices utilizing spintronics, multiferroics, topological effects and other novel operational principles.…
Due to the piezoelectric nature of GaN, the 2DEG in AlGaN/GaN HEMT could be engineered by strain. In this work, SiNx deposited using dual-frequency PECVD was used as a stressor. The output performance of the devices was dominated by the…
We report an efficient extension of supercontinuum generation through dispersion engineering of crystalline aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-sapphire waveguides. Using a tailored epitaxial regrowth of AlN epilayers and an optimized fabrication…
The nitride semiconductor materials GaN, AlN, and InN, and their alloys and heterostructures have been investigated extensively in the last 3 decades, leading to several technologically successful photonic and electronic devices. Just over…
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…
Three terminal single-electron transistor devices utilizing Al/Al2O3 gate electrodes were developed for the study of electron transport through individual single-molecule magnets. The devices were patterned via multiple layers of optical…