High breakdown single-crystal GaN p-n diodes by molecular beam epitaxy
Abstract
Molecular beam epitaxy grown GaN p-n vertical diodes are demonstrated on single-crystal GaN substrates. A low leakage current <3 nA/cm2 is obtained with reverse bias voltage up to −20 V. With a 400 nm thick n-drift region, an on-resistance of 0.23 mΩ cm2 is achieved, with a breakdown voltage corresponding to a peak electric field of ∼3.1 MV/cm in GaN. Single-crystal GaN substrates with very low dislocation densities enable the low leakage current and the high breakdown field in the diodes, showing significant potential for MBE growth to attain near-intrinsic performance when the density of dislocations is low.
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- Applied Physics Letters
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- Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Volume: 107 Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
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Qi, Meng, Nomoto, Kazuki, Zhu, Mingda, Hu, Zongyang, Zhao, Yuning, Protasenko, Vladimir, Song, Bo, Yan, Xiaodong, Li, Guowang, Verma, Jai, Bader, Samuel, Fay, Patrick, Xing, Huili Grace, and Jena, Debdeep. High breakdown single-crystal GaN p-n diodes by molecular beam epitaxy. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4936891.
Qi, Meng, Nomoto, Kazuki, Zhu, Mingda, Hu, Zongyang, Zhao, Yuning, Protasenko, Vladimir, Song, Bo, Yan, Xiaodong, Li, Guowang, Verma, Jai, Bader, Samuel, Fay, Patrick, Xing, Huili Grace, & Jena, Debdeep. High breakdown single-crystal GaN p-n diodes by molecular beam epitaxy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936891
Qi, Meng, Nomoto, Kazuki, Zhu, Mingda, Hu, Zongyang, Zhao, Yuning, Protasenko, Vladimir, Song, Bo, Yan, Xiaodong, Li, Guowang, Verma, Jai, Bader, Samuel, Fay, Patrick, Xing, Huili Grace, and Jena, Debdeep. Tue .
"High breakdown single-crystal GaN p-n diodes by molecular beam epitaxy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936891.
@article{osti_1420571,
title = {High breakdown single-crystal GaN p-n diodes by molecular beam epitaxy},
author = {Qi, Meng and Nomoto, Kazuki and Zhu, Mingda and Hu, Zongyang and Zhao, Yuning and Protasenko, Vladimir and Song, Bo and Yan, Xiaodong and Li, Guowang and Verma, Jai and Bader, Samuel and Fay, Patrick and Xing, Huili Grace and Jena, Debdeep},
abstractNote = {Molecular beam epitaxy grown GaN p-n vertical diodes are demonstrated on single-crystal GaN substrates. A low leakage current <3 nA/cm2 is obtained with reverse bias voltage up to −20 V. With a 400 nm thick n-drift region, an on-resistance of 0.23 mΩ cm2 is achieved, with a breakdown voltage corresponding to a peak electric field of ∼3.1 MV/cm in GaN. Single-crystal GaN substrates with very low dislocation densities enable the low leakage current and the high breakdown field in the diodes, showing significant potential for MBE growth to attain near-intrinsic performance when the density of dislocations is low.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4936891},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 23,
volume = 107,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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