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most citedRepeatable Room Temperature Negative Differential Conductance in GaN/AlN Resonant Tunneling Diodes

59 citations · 223 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations of two-dimensional electron gases in AlYN/GaN and AlScN/GaN heterostructures

Yu-Hsin Chen, Thai-Son Nguyen, Isabel Streicher +4

AlYN and AlScN have recently emerged as promising nitride materials that can be integrated with GaN to form two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) at heterojunctions. Electron tran…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

XHEMTs on Ultrawide Bandgap Single-Crystal AlN Substrates

Eungkyun Kim, Yu-Hsin Chen, Naomi Pieczulewski +4

AlN has the largest bandgap in the wurtzite III-nitride semiconductor family, making it an ideal barrier for a thin GaN channel to achieve strong carrier confinement in field-effec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in coherently strained AlN/GaN/AlN quantum wells on bulk AlN substrates

Yu-Hsin Chen, Jimy Encomendero, Huili Grace Xing +1

We report the observation of Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations in coherently strained, low-dislocation AlN/GaN/AlN quantum wells (QWs), including both undoped and -doped stru…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Quantum oscillations of holes in GaN

Chuan F. C. Chang, Joseph E. Dill, Zexuan Zhang +12

GaN has emerged to be a major semiconductor akin to silicon due to its revolutionary impacts in solid state lighting, critically enabled by p-type doping, and high-performance radi…

physics.acc-ph2024

Measurement of Spin-Polarized Photoemission from Wurtzite and Zinc-Blende Gallium Nitride Photocathodes

S. J. Levenson, M. B. Andorf, B. D. Dickensheets +7

Spin-polarized photoemission from wurtzite and zinc-blende gallium nitride (GaN) photocathodes has been observed and measured for the first time. The p-doped GaN photocathodes were…

physics.app-ph2023

Ultrawide bandgap semiconductor heterojunction p-n diodes with distributed polarization doped p-type AlGaN layers on bulk AlN substrates

Shivali Agrawal, Len van Deurzen, Jimy Encomendero +7

Ultrawide bandgap heterojunction p-n diodes with polarization-induced AlGaN p-type layers are demonstrated using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on bulk AlN substrates. Curr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 15 cited

Excitonic and deep-level emission from N- and Al-polar homoepitaxial AlN grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Len van Deurzen, Jashan Singhal, Jimy Encomendero +8

Using low-temperature cathodoluminescence spectroscopy, we study the properties of N- and Al-polar AlN layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy on bulk AlN{0001}. Compared to the bul…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 7 cited

Defeating Broken Symmetry with Doping: Symmetric Resonant Tunneling in Noncentrosymetric Heterostructures

Jimy Encomendero, Vladimir Protasenko, Debdeep Jena +1

Resonant tunneling transport in polar heterostructures is intimately connected to the polarization fields emerging from the geometric Berry-phase. In these structures, quantum conf…

physics.app-ph2023★ 15 cited

Fighting Broken Symmetry with Doping: Toward Polar Resonant Tunneling Diodes with Symmetric Characteristics

Jimy Encomendero, Vladimir Protasenko, Farhan Rana +2

The recent demonstration of resonant tunneling transport in nitride semiconductors has led to an invigorated effort to harness this quantum transport regime for practical applicati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 41 cited

Broken Symmetry Effects due to Polarization on Resonant Tunneling Transport in Double-Barrier Nitride Heterostructures

Jimy Encomendero, Vladimir Protasenko, Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez +4

The phenomenon of resonant tunneling transport through polar double-barrier heterostructures is systematically investigated using a combined experimental and theoretical approach.…

physics.app-ph2023★ 44 cited

FerroHEMTs: High-Current and High-Speed All-Epitaxial AlScN/GaN Ferroelectric Transistors

J. Casamento, K. Nomoto, T. S. Nguyen +11

We report the first observation of ferroelectric gating in AlScN barrier wide-bandgap nitride transistors. These FerroHEMT devices realized by direct epitaxial growth represent a n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 22 cited

Molecular Beam Homoepitaxy of N-polar AlN on bulk AlN substrates

Jashan Singhal, Jimy Encomendero, Yongjin Cho +6

N-polar AlN epilayers were grown on the N-face of single crystal bulk AlN substrates by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE). A combination of in situ thermal deoxidatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 20 cited

N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes

YongJin Cho, Jimy Encomendero, Shao-Ting Ho +2

N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes are realized on single-crystal N-polar GaN bulk substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth. The room-temperature current-v…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

Repeatable Room Temperature Negative Differential Conductance in GaN/AlN Resonant Tunneling Diodes

Jimy Encomendero, Faiza Afroz Faria, S. M. Islam +5

Double barrier GaN/AlN resonant tunneling heterostructures have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on the (0001) plane of commercially available bulk GaN substrates. Resonant tun…