Scatterings and Quantum Effects in Heterostructures for High-Power and High-Frequency Electronics
Abstract
Charge transport in the wide-band-gap heterostructures with high carrier density approximately is investigated over a large range of temperature ( ) and magnetic field ( ). We observe the first evidence of weak localization in the two-dimensional electron gas in this system. From the Shubnikov–de Haas (SdH) oscillations a relatively light effective mass of is determined. Furthermore, the linear dependence with temperature ( ) of the inelastic scattering rate ( ) is attributed to the phase breaking by electron-electron scattering. Also in the same temperature range the less-than unit ratio of quantum lifetime to Hall transport time is taken to signify the dominance of small-angle scattering. Above 20 K, with increasing temperature scattering changes from acoustic phonon to optical phonon scattering, resulting in a rapid decrease in carrier mobility and increase in sheet resistance. Furthermore, suppression of such scatterings will lead to higher mobility and a way forward to high-power and high-frequency electronics.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
- Benedict College, Columbia, SC (United States)
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1540701
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1419829
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0002630; DMR-1157490
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Applied
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; quantum transport; Shubnikov-de Haas effect; transport phenomena; weak localization; devices; heterostructures; III-V semiconductors; two-dimensional electron gas
Citation Formats
Wang, Leizhi, Yin, Ming, Khan, Asif, Muhtadi, Sakib, Asif, Fatima, Choi, Eun Sang, and Datta, Timir. Scatterings and Quantum Effects in (Al,In)N/GaN Heterostructures for High-Power and High-Frequency Electronics. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024006.
Wang, Leizhi, Yin, Ming, Khan, Asif, Muhtadi, Sakib, Asif, Fatima, Choi, Eun Sang, & Datta, Timir. Scatterings and Quantum Effects in (Al,In)N/GaN Heterostructures for High-Power and High-Frequency Electronics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024006
Wang, Leizhi, Yin, Ming, Khan, Asif, Muhtadi, Sakib, Asif, Fatima, Choi, Eun Sang, and Datta, Timir. Wed .
"Scatterings and Quantum Effects in (Al,In)N/GaN Heterostructures for High-Power and High-Frequency Electronics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1540701.
@article{osti_1540701,
title = {Scatterings and Quantum Effects in (Al,In)N/GaN Heterostructures for High-Power and High-Frequency Electronics},
author = {Wang, Leizhi and Yin, Ming and Khan, Asif and Muhtadi, Sakib and Asif, Fatima and Choi, Eun Sang and Datta, Timir},
abstractNote = {Charge transport in the wide-band-gap (Al,In)N/GaN heterostructures with high carrier density approximately 2×1013 cm-2 is investigated over a large range of temperature (270 mK≤T≤280 K) and magnetic field (0≤B≤18 T). We observe the first evidence of weak localization in the two-dimensional electron gas in this system. From the Shubnikov–de Haas (SdH) oscillations a relatively light effective mass of 0.23me is determined. Furthermore, the linear dependence with temperature (T<20 K) of the inelastic scattering rate (τi-1∝T) is attributed to the phase breaking by electron-electron scattering. Also in the same temperature range the less-than unit ratio of quantum lifetime to Hall transport time (τq/τt<1) is taken to signify the dominance of small-angle scattering. Above 20 K, with increasing temperature scattering changes from acoustic phonon to optical phonon scattering, resulting in a rapid decrease in carrier mobility and increase in sheet resistance. Furthermore, suppression of such scatterings will lead to higher mobility and a way forward to high-power and high-frequency electronics.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024006},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 2,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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