GdN nanoisland-based GaN tunnel junctions.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Tunnel junctions could have a great impact on gallium nitride and aluminum nitride-based devices such as light-emitting diodes and lasers by overcoming critical challenges related to hole injection and p-contacts. This paper demonstrates the use of GdN nanoislands to enhance interband tunneling and hole injection into GaN p-n junctions by several orders of magnitude, resulting in low tunnel junction specific resistivity (1.3 × 10(-3) Ω-cm(2)) compared to the previous results in wide band gap semiconductors. Tunnel injection of holes was confirmed by low-temperature operation of GaN p-n junction with a tunneling contact layer, and strong electroluminescence down to 20 K. The low tunnel junction resistance combined with low optical absorption loss in GdN is very promising for incorporation in GaN-based light emitters.