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In this paper, the characteristics of the two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in p-GaN/p-AlxGa1-xN heterojunction is investigated in detail, based on self-consistent solutions of one-dimensional Poisson and Schrdinger equations. The valence band structures and the 2DHG distributions are calculated in the cases of different Al components and piezoelectric polarization effects. Then, the influences of Al components and piezoelectric polarization effects on 2DHG are analysed specifically. The results show that with the increase of Al component, the quantum well at the heterojunction interface turns deeper and narrower, which leads to an accelerated growth of the 2DHG peak density and a line increase of the 2DHG sheet concentration. Furthermore, piezoelectric polarization effects also make the quantum well at the heterojunction interface deeper and narrower, at the same time, the Fermi level moves close to the top of the barrier and the location of peak density moves close to the heterojunction interface. In addition, the influences of valence band offset and acceptor doping concentration on 2DHG are relatively small. Ohmic contact of p-AlxGa1-xN is fabricatea with the 2DHG, and its I-V characteristic is much better than that without the 2DHG, which indicates that the 2DHG can significantly improve the performance of p-AlxGa1-xN ohmic contact.
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Keywords:
- p-AlGaN /
- piezoelectric polarization /
- two-dimensional hole gas /
- Ohmic contact
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[1] Norimichi N, Hirayama H, Yatabe T, Kamata N 2009 Phys. Status Solidi C 6 S459
[2] Cheng X X, Wang Y 2010 Solid-State Electronics 54 1300
[3] Biyikli N, Kimukin I, Aytur O, Ozbay E 2004 IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16 1718
[4] Lee S N, Jang T, Son J K, Peak H S, Sakong T, Yoon E, Nam O H, Park Y 2006 J. Cryst. Growth 287 554
[5] Hackenbuchner S, Majewski J A, Zandler J, Vogl P 2001 J. Cryst. Growth 230 607
[6] You D, Xu J T, Tang Y W, He Z, Xu Y H, Gong H M 2006 Aata Phys. Sin. 55 6600 (in Chinese) [游达, 许金通, 汤英文, 何政, 徐运华, 龚海梅 2006 物理学报 55 6600]
[7] Nakajima A, Sumida Y, Dhyani M H, Kawai H, Sankara Narayanan E M 2010 Appl. Phys. Express 3 121004
[8] Arulkumaran S Egawa T Ishikawa H 2005 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 2953
[9] Lin Y J 2006 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 L86
[10] Rashmi Kranti A Haldar S Gupta R S 2002 Solid-State Electronics 46 621
[11] Tan I H Snider G L Chang L D Hu E L 1990 J. Appl. Phys. 68 4071
[12] Ando T 1982 J. Phys. Soc. Japan 51 3893
[13] Stern F, Dassarma S 1984 Phys. Rev. B 30 840
[14] Kong Y C, Zheng Y D, Chu R M, Gu S L 2003 Aata Phys. Sin. 52 1756 (in Chinese) [孔月婵, 郑有炓, 储荣明, 顾书林 2003 物理学报 52 1756]
[15] Yu L 2006 Semiconductor Heterostructure Physics (2nd Edn.) (Beijng: Science Press) pp30-40, 119-137, 271-306 (in Chinese) [虞丽 2006 半导体异质结物理 (第二版) (北京: 科学出版社) 第30—40页, 第119—137页, 第271—306页]
[16] Vurgaftman I Meyer J R Ram-Mohan L R 2001 J. Appl. Phys. 89 5815
[17] Levinshtein M E (Translated by Yang S R) 2003 Properties of Advanced Semiconductor Materials (Beijing: Chemical Industry Press) pp1, 2 42, 43 (in Chinese) [Michael E Levinshtein 著, 杨树人 译 2003 先进半导体材料性能与数据手册 (北京: 化学工业出版社) 第1, 2页, 第42, 43页]
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