Near-UV electroluminescence in unipolar-doped, bipolar-tunneling GaN/AlN heterostructures

Tyler A Growden; Weidong Zhang; Elliott R Brown; David F Storm; David J Meyer; Paul R Berger

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.150

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Near-UV electroluminescence in unipolar-doped, bipolar-tunneling GaN/AlN heterostructures

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- Near-UV electroluminescence in unipolar-doped, bipolar-tunneling GaN/AlN heterostructures
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 1, (2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
  2.Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
  3.US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
- Author bio：
  
  PR Berger, Email: pberger@ieee.org
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.150
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- Published：2018，
  
  Published Online：23 February 2018，
  
  Received：02 April 2017，
  
  Revised：05 October 2017，
  
  Accepted：23 October 2017
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Growden, T. A. et al. Near-UV electroluminescence in unipolar-doped, bipolar-tunneling GaN/AlN heterostructures. Light: Science & Applications, 1, 17150 (2018).
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Growden, T. A. et al. Near-UV electroluminescence in unipolar-doped, bipolar-tunneling GaN/AlN heterostructures. Light: Science & Applications, 1, 17150 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.150.

摘要

Abstract

Cross-gap light emission is reported in n-type unipolar GaN/AlN double-barrier heterostructure diodes at room temperature. Three different designs were grown on semi-insulating bulk GaN substrates using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). All samples displayed a single electroluminescent spectral peak at 360 nm with full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) values no greater than 16 nm and an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of ≈0.0074% at 18.8 mA. In contrast to traditional GaN light emitters

p-type doping and p-contacts are completely avoided

and instead

holes are created in the GaN on the emitter side of the tunneling structure by direct interband (that is

Zener) tunneling from the valence band to the conduction band on the collector side. The Zener tunneling is enhanced by the high electric fields (~5 × 10

V cm

−1

) created by the notably large polarization-induced sheet charge at the interfaces between the AlN and GaN.

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Keywords

AlNGaNheterostructureNear-UV light emissionunipolarZener tunneling

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