Piezotronic Effect Modulated Heterojunction Electron Gas in AlGaN/AlN/GaN Heterostructure Microwire.

Wang, Xingfu; Yu, Ruomeng; Jiang, Chunyan; Hu, Weiguo; Wu, Wenzhuo; Ding, Yong; Peng, Wenbo; Li, Shuti et al. · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The piezotronic effect is applied to modulate the physical properties of heterojunction electron gas and thus tune the electric transport in AlGaN/AlN/GaN heterostructure microwires. At room temperature, the conductance is increased by 165% under -1.78% compressive strains, and reduced by 48% under 1.78% tensile strains; at 77 K, this modulating effect is further improved by 890% and 940% under compressive and tensile strains, respectively.