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Tailorable Rectification: A study of Vertical Transport in AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Madhusudan Singh ,
Jaspirt Singh  and
Umesh Mishra
Madhusudan Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Jaspirt Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Umesh Mishra
Affiliation:
Department of Electric Computer Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

In this paper, we report calculations that show that a metal-polar semiconductor heterostructure can exhibit highly controllable non-linear current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. Change in barrier thickness can alter the characteristics from Schottky-like to ohmic in different bias regimes. The origin of these unusual effects is a large electric field (> 106 V/cm) and high sheet charge (∼1013 – 1014 cm-2) without doping, in the polar heterostructure. Theoretical calculation of the tunneling current density in these systems indicates that very interesting non-linear behaviour is shown by theseystems, ev en in the undoped case. Choice of suitable compositions of the materials and thicknesses can be used to tailor devices with desired characteristics.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 693 , 2001 , I11.38.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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