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Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) materials hold immense potential for high-power RF electronics and deep ultraviolet photonics. Among these, AlGaN emerges as a promising candidate, offering a tunable bandgap from 3.4 eV (GaN) to 6.1 eV (AlN) and…
Beta phase gallium oxides, an ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor, has great potential for future power and RF electronics applications but faces challenges in bipolar device applications due to the lack of p-type dopants. In this work, we…
To meet the growing demands of advanced electronic systems, next-generation power and RF semiconductor devices must operate efficiently at higher power levels and switching frequencies while remaining compact. Current state-of-the-art GaN…
Diamond and gallium nitride are complementary semiconductors for forming p-n junctions because of their respective doping limitations. Understanding the band alignment of grafted diamond/GaN heterojunctions is therefore essential for…
Semiconductor heterojunctions are foundational to many advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices. However, achieving high-quality, lattice-mismatched interfaces remains challenging, limiting both scalability and device performance.…
Ultrawide bandgap heterojunction p-n diodes with polarization-induced AlGaN p-type layers are demonstrated using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on bulk AlN substrates. Current-voltage characteristics show a turn on voltage of…
In this work, we report the fabrication and characterizations of a monocrystalline GaAs/$\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ p-n heterojunction by employing semiconductor grafting technology. The heterojunction was created by lifting off and transfer…
The wide bandgap, high-breakdown electric field, and high carrier mobility makes GaN an ideal material for high-power and high-frequency electronics applications such as wireless communication and radar systems. However, the performance and…
Several pn junctions were constructed from mechanically exfoliated ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) beta-phase gallium oxide (\b{eta}-Ga2O3) and p-type gallium nitride (GaN). The mechanical exfoliation process, which is described in detail, is…
The $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ has exceptional electronic properties with vast potential in power and RF electronics. Despite the excellent demonstrations of high-performance unipolar devices, the lack of p-type doping in $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ has…
Heterostructures based on ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors (bandgap >4.0 eV), boron nitride (BN) and diamond are important for next-generation high-power electronics. However, in-situ hetero-epitaxy of BN/diamond or vice-versa…
We report ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) AlGaN heterostructure field-effect transistors (HFETs) exhibiting a high breakdown field (> 5.3 MV/cm) and a low contact resistance (~1.55 {\Omega}mm), tailored for high-power radiofrequency applications.…
The electrical and photodiode characteristics of ensemble and single p-GaN nanowire and n-Si heterojunction devices were studied. Ideality factor of the single nanowire p-GaN/n-Si device was found to be about three times lower compared to…
We report a novel approach for crafting robust diamond/\b{eta}-Ga2O3 hetero-p-n-junctions through the mechanical integration of their bulk materials. This resulting heterojunction, with a turn-on voltage of ~2.7 V at room temperature,…
Owing to the large breakdown electric field, wide bandgap semiconductors such as SiC, GaN, Ga2O3 and diamond based power devices are the focus for next generation power switching applications. The unipolar trade-off relationship between the…
Diamond and many newly emerged semiconductor materials show outstanding optical and magnetic properties. However, they cannot be as efficiently doped as silicon or gallium arsenide, which limits their practical applicability. Here, we…
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…
GaN-based lateral Schottky diodes (SBDs) have attracted great attention for high-power applications due to its combined high electron mobility and large critical breakdown field. However, the breakdown voltage (BV) of the SBDs are far from…
Traditionally, advancements in semiconductor devices have been driven by lattice-matched heterojunctions with tailored band alignments through heteroepitaxy techniques. However, there is significant interest in expanding the capabilities of…
Large-scale entanglement of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond will require integration of NV centers with optical networks. Toward this goal, we present the fabrication of single-crystalline gallium phosphide (GaP)…