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Negative Differential Resistivity in GaN Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photoconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Z.C. Huang ,
J.C. Chen ,
Youdou Zheng  and
D.B. Mott
Z.C. Huang
Affiliation:
Hughes STX Corporation, 7701 Greenbeit Road, Suit 400, Greenbelt, MD 20770
J.C. Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228
Youdou Zheng
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China
D.B. Mott
Affiliation:
Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 718.1, NASA, Greenbelt, MD 20771
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Abstract

We have observed a negative differential resistivity (NDR) in metal-semiconductor-metal (M-S-M) photoconductor made from unintentionally doped GaN grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. The threshold field for the onset of NDR was found to be independent of the spacing of M-S-M fingers, and was measured to be 1.91×105 V/cm for GaN with an n-type carrier concentration of 1014 cm−3. We believe that the observed NDR is due to transferred electron effect in GaN. The threshold field value is very close to the value obtained from the theoretical simulation. This observation, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental evidence of transferred-electron effects in GaN, which is important in understanding GaN energy band structure and in the application of Gunn-effect devices using GaN materials.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 395: Symposium AAA – Gallium Nitride and Related Materials: The First International Symp , 1995 , 789
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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