AlN/GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes grown by rf-plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy on freestanding GaN

Abstract

The authors report the growth by rf-plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy of AlN/GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes which exhibit stable, repeatable, and hysteresis-free negative differential resistance (NDR) at room temperature for more than 1000 bias sweeps between −2.5 and +5.5 V. The device layers were grown on freestanding, Ga-polar GaN substrates grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy and having a density of threading dislocations between 106 and 107 cm−2. The authors speculate that the repeatable NDR is facilitated by the low-dislocation density substrates.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2017
Source ID
10.1116/1.4977779

Entities

People

  • D. Scott Katzer
  • David F. Storm
  • David J. Meyer
  • Elliott R. Brown
  • Matthew T. Hardy
  • Neeraj Nepal
  • Paul R. Berger
  • Tyler A Growden
  • Weidong Zhang

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • Ohio State University
  • United States Naval Research Laboratory
  • Wright State University

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Semiconductor Device Technology
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.