Recent advances in optoelectronic and microelectronic devices based on ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors

J Yang, K Liu, X Chen, D Shen - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to their novel physical properties, semiconductors have penetrated almost every
corner of the contemporary industrial system. Nowadays, semiconductor materials and their …

Thermal management and packaging of wide and ultra-wide bandgap power devices: a review and perspective

Y Qin, B Albano, J Spencer, JS Lundh… - Journal of physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Power semiconductor devices are fundamental drivers for advances in power electronics,
the technology for electric energy conversion. Power devices based on wide-bandgap …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal conductivity of crystalline AlN and the influence of atomic-scale defects

RL Xu, M Muñoz Rojo, SM Islam, A Sood… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN) plays a key role in modern power electronics and deep-ultraviolet
photonics, where an understanding of its thermal properties is essential. Here, we measure …

(Ultra) wide-bandgap vertical power FinFETs

Y Zhang, T Palacios - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FinFET is the backbone device technology for CMOS electronics at deeply scaled
technology nodes per Moore's law. Recently, the FinFET concept has been leveraged to …

Materials for high-temperature digital electronics

DK Pradhan, DC Moore, AM Francis… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon microelectronics, consisting of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
technology, have changed nearly all aspects of human life from communication to …

N-polar GaN/AlGaN/AlN high electron mobility transistors on single-crystal bulk AlN substrates

E Kim, Z Zhang, J Encomendero, J Singhal… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recent observation of high density polarization-induced two-dimensional electron gases in
ultra-thin N-polar GaN layers grown on single-crystal AlN has enabled the development of N …

High-temperature performance of AlN MESFETs with epitaxially grown n-type AlN channel layers

M Hiroki, Y Taniyasu… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We fabricated AlN metal semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs) with an epitaxially
grown n-type AlN channel layer and characterized the temperature dependence of their …

[HTML][HTML] Al-rich AlGaN based transistors

AG Baca, AM Armstrong, BA Klein… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Research results for AlGaN-channel transistors are reviewed as they have progressed from
low Al-content and long-channel devices to Al-rich and short-channel RF devices. Figure of …

A review of ultrawide bandgap materials: properties, synthesis and devices

M Xu, D Wang, K Fu, DH Mudiyanselage… - Oxford Open …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) materials such as diamond, Ga2O3, hexagonal boron nitride (h-
BN) and AlN, are a new class of semiconductors that possess a wide range of attractive …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular beam homoepitaxy on bulk AlN enabled by aluminum-assisted surface cleaning

YJ Cho, CS Chang, K Lee, M Gong, K Nomoto… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We compare the effectiveness of in situ thermal cleaning with that of Al-assisted cleaning of
native surface oxides of bulk AlN for homoepitaxial growth by molecular beam epitaxy …