Nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on free-standing $$(10\bar{1}0)$$ m -plane GaN substrates
Abstract
We report nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on m-plane free-standing substrates. Cathodoluminescence measurements showed that the nonpolar p-GaN had a high quality with very few deep-level states. The device exhibited good rectifying behaviors with a turn-on voltage of 4.0 V, on-resistance of 2.3 mΩ∙cm2, and high on/off ratio of 1010. The reverse current leakage was described by a trap-assisted space-charge- limited current conduction mechanism. The critical electrical field was calculated to be 2.0 MV/cm without field plates or edge termination. Finally, these results pave the way for development of novel nonpolar power electronics and polarization-engineering-related advanced power devices.
- Authors:
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- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), CAS, Suzhou (China). Key Lab. of Nanodevices and Applications, Suzhou Inst. of Nanotech and Nanobionics
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), CAS, Suzhou (China). Key Lab. of Nanodevices and Applications, Suzhou Inst. of Nanotech and Nanobionics; Suzhou Nanowin Science and Technology Co., Suzhou (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1505567
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000868
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1882-0778
- Publisher:
- Japan Society of Applied Physics
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Fu, Houqiang, Zhang, Xiaodong, Fu, Kai, Liu, Hanxiao, Alugubelli, Shanthan R., Huang, Xuanqi, Chen, Hong, Baranowski, Izak, Yang, Tsung-Han, Xu, Ke, Ponce, Fernando A., Zhang, Baoshun, and Zhao, Yuji. Nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on free-standing $(10\bar{1}0)$ m -plane GaN substrates. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.7567/APEX.11.111003.
Fu, Houqiang, Zhang, Xiaodong, Fu, Kai, Liu, Hanxiao, Alugubelli, Shanthan R., Huang, Xuanqi, Chen, Hong, Baranowski, Izak, Yang, Tsung-Han, Xu, Ke, Ponce, Fernando A., Zhang, Baoshun, & Zhao, Yuji. Nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on free-standing $(10\bar{1}0)$ m -plane GaN substrates. United States. https://doi.org/10.7567/APEX.11.111003
Fu, Houqiang, Zhang, Xiaodong, Fu, Kai, Liu, Hanxiao, Alugubelli, Shanthan R., Huang, Xuanqi, Chen, Hong, Baranowski, Izak, Yang, Tsung-Han, Xu, Ke, Ponce, Fernando A., Zhang, Baoshun, and Zhao, Yuji. Tue .
"Nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on free-standing $(10\bar{1}0)$ m -plane GaN substrates". United States. https://doi.org/10.7567/APEX.11.111003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505567.
@article{osti_1505567,
title = {Nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on free-standing $(10\bar{1}0)$ m -plane GaN substrates},
author = {Fu, Houqiang and Zhang, Xiaodong and Fu, Kai and Liu, Hanxiao and Alugubelli, Shanthan R. and Huang, Xuanqi and Chen, Hong and Baranowski, Izak and Yang, Tsung-Han and Xu, Ke and Ponce, Fernando A. and Zhang, Baoshun and Zhao, Yuji},
abstractNote = {We report nonpolar vertical GaN-on-GaN p–n diodes grown on m-plane free-standing substrates. Cathodoluminescence measurements showed that the nonpolar p-GaN had a high quality with very few deep-level states. The device exhibited good rectifying behaviors with a turn-on voltage of 4.0 V, on-resistance of 2.3 mΩ∙cm2, and high on/off ratio of 1010. The reverse current leakage was described by a trap-assisted space-charge- limited current conduction mechanism. The critical electrical field was calculated to be 2.0 MV/cm without field plates or edge termination. Finally, these results pave the way for development of novel nonpolar power electronics and polarization-engineering-related advanced power devices.},
doi = {10.7567/APEX.11.111003},
journal = {Applied Physics Express},
number = 11,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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