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  • Single nanowire AlN/GaN double barrier resonant tunneling diodeswith bipolar tunneling at room and cryogenic temperatures

    Ye Shao, Santino D. Carnevale, and A. T. M. G. SarwarDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

    Roberto C. Myersa)

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus,Ohio 43210

    Wu Lub)

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

    (Received 22 June 2013; accepted 25 October 2013; published 12 November 2013)

    III-N semiconductor resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) have attracted great research interest

    because of their potential high speed performance. Thin film III-N RTDs are challenging due to

    high dislocation densities resulted from large lattice and thermal expansion coefficient mismatches

    to substrates. Here the authors present the growth and fabrication of AlN/GaN double barrier

    nanowire RTDs. The AlN/GaN double barrier nanowire RTDs show clear negative differential

    resistance with an onset voltage between 3.5 V and 4.5 V at both room and cryogenic temperatures.

    The bipolar tunneling and temperature dependent device performance suggest that the electron

    transport of these devices is based on resonant tunneling. VC 2013 American Vacuum Society.[http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.4829432]

    I. INTRODUCTION

    Because of the fast tunneling process or extremely high

    switching speed (in terahertz range), resonant tunneling

    devices have attracted considerable interest for a variety of

    potential applications including high-resolution radar, imag-

    ing systems for low visibility environments, wide-band

    secure communications systems, etc.14 III-nitride (III-N)

    wide band gap semiconductors are promising materials for

    resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) because of their unique

    material properties such as large conduction band offset (i.e.,

    2.1 eV between AlN and GaN), and excellent thermal sta-bility. However, III-N thin films always suffer from a

    large density of threading dislocations (typically

    108109 cm2) since they are grown on non-native latti-

    ce-mismatched substrates such as sapphire, SiC, or Si.

    As a result, previously reported planar tunneling devices

    exhibited strong hysteresis and no negative differential

    resistance (NDR) peak when scanning backwards (i.e.,

    from positive voltage to 0 V) or at low temperatures.58

    This has been attributed to trap-assisted tunneling rather

    than resonance tunneling. The planar devices may also

    suffer from interface roughness and island scattering,

    which causes the degradation of peak to valley current

    ratio (PVCR) after initial scans.9,10

    Recently, III-nitride nanowires (NWs) have emerged

    as an alternative choice for high performance RTDs. This

    is because large surface-to-volume ratio and small cross

    sections allow NWs to accommodate much higher lattice

    mismatch with an efficient elastic strain relaxation, thereby

    preventing the formation of dislocations during epitaxial

    growth. Because of these advantages, III-N NWs have been

    considered as a promising candidate of next generation

    nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices. In general,

    NDR features observed in III-N semiconductor NW devices

    can be attributed to three different mechanisms:11 (a) trap-

    assisted inelastic tunneling;12 (b) tunneling through potential

    barriers between NWs in a network;13 (c) intervalley

    scattering.1417 The trap-assisted inelastic tunneling related

    NDR is commonly hysteretic, degrades after repeated scans,

    and disappears at low temperatures.57,18 Thus, technically

    robust RTDs require resonant tunneling through the barriers

    ruling out any trap-assisted tunneling transport. So far, many

    experimental studies have been focused on AlN/GaN double

    barrier NW based RTDs to pursue reliable and reproducible

    NDR with high PVCR and tunneling current density.1517

    In this Letter, we report on axial catalyst free

    AlN/GaN double barrier single NW RTDs grown by

    plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE). The

    high quality of AlN/GaN interfaces makes ideal resonant

    tunneling possible.11 These NW RTDs show clear NDR

    at both room and cryogenic temperatures and tunneling

    under a bipolar bias.

    II. EXPERIMENT

    In our work, an axial GaN/AlN double barrier NW struc-

    ture was grown using a Veeco 930 radio frequency PAMBE

    on n-Si (111) substrates. The NWs have a symmetrical struc-

    ture consisting of 500 nm n-GaN/1.5 nm i-AlN/2.5 nm

    i-GaN/1.5 nm i-AlN/500 nm n-GaN along the axial c-axis

    preferential growth direction with a majority of the wires

    exhibiting N-polarity.18 As discussed below, a fraction of

    each layer also deposits radially. The 500 nm n-GaN was

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  • electrical contacts. We have developed a two-step growth

    method for catalyst free III-N NW growth.15 First, GaN

    nanoislands were nucleated at a substrate temperature of

    720 C until the desired areal density was achieved. Thenthe substrate temperature was ramped up to 790 C to growthe rest of the NW heterostructure. The elevated substrate

    temperature inhibits nucleation of new islands, but already

    nucleated nanoislands continue to grow as NWs, thus main-

    taining the same density achieved in the first growth step.

    The Z-contrast atomic resolution scanning tunneling electron

    microscope images of both as-grown vertical and coaxial

    AlN/GaN heterostructures with the same two-step growth

    method have been reported elsewhere.15,19 Thus, a clear ab-

    rupt AlN/GaN heterostructure interface without any thread

    defects can be expected here.

    For device fabrication, the as-grown GaN/AlN double

    barrier NWs were removed from the original Si substrate by

    sonication in ethanol, then spin-coated on a foreign silicon

    substrate with a 100 nm thick, thermally grown SiO2 layer.

    To make sure there is good chance to get working RTDs, a

    500 nm electrodes gap as shown in Fig. 1(c) was designed

    and defined by electron beam lithography using a Vistec

    EBPG 5000 system at 50 keV and a beam current of 20 nA

    with proximity correction implemented. A PMMA

    (950 k)/PMMA-MAA bilayer resist scheme was used and

    developed in methyl isobutyl ketone:isopropyl alcohol

    (IPA) 1:2 for 30 s and rinsed in IPA to generate undercutsfor lift off. Ti/Al/Ti/Au metal contacts were deposited by

    electron beam evaporation and lifted-off to form electrodes.

    Room temperature measurements were performed on a

    Karl Suss probe station using an Agilent 4156c semiconduc-

    tor device parameter analyzer. The temperature dependent

    IV measurements were performed on a cryogenic probe sta-

    tion (TTP4 Probe Station, Lake shore Cryotronics, Inc) from

    77 to 256 K.

    III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

    A cross section SEM image of as-grown NWs is shown

    in Fig. 1(a). It shows most of the NWs are wedge-shaped

    with a slim root and sturdy head, indicating that NW growth

    takes place not only axially but also radially. All NWs have

    lengths around 1 lm and diameters between 150 and200 nm.

    The device structure sketch is shown in Fig. 1(b). As a

    working device, a single NW needs to be in good contact

    with two electrodes [shown in Fig. 1(c)]. So far, different

    theoretical methods have been developed for quantum trans-

    port simulations in AlN/GaN double barrier heterostruc-

    ture.20 To better understand the tunneling mechanism, a

    one-dimensional self-consistent Schrodinger Poisson model,

    coupled spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization effects,

    was performed using software SILVACO ATLAS, to simulate the

    band diagram of AlN/GaN double barrier heterostructure.

    Figure 2 shows the conduction band edge (Ec), valence band

    edge (Ev), and first two quasi-bound state energy levels with

    their corresponding wave functions in the quantum well

    along the c-axis growth direction. The simulated first two

    quasi-bound state energy levels are 0.492 eV and 1.023 eV

    above the Fermi level, respectively. At low biases or close to

    equilibrium, both quasi-bound states are above the Fermi

    level (Ef); thus, no tunneling is likely to happen. Most car-

    riers are blocked by the AlN double barriers. At a certain

    applied bias, the electron energy in the GaN region aligns

    with the first bound state in the GaN well between the two

    thin AlN barriers resulting tunneling resonance. Since the

    NWs are made of polar crystalline materials (GaN and AlN),

    the biasing conditions for tunneling at forward and reverse

    are different due to the asymmetrical band structure caused

    by the strong polarization effects.

    The room temperature IV characteristics of RTDs are

    shown in Fig. 3(a). These RTDs show clear NDR with an

    onset voltage between 3.5 V and 4.5 V as shown in the

    zoom-in views of insets in Fig. 3(a). It is important to note

    that for most RTDs, the NDR feature appears during bipolar

    voltage scan (i.e., scanning all the way from negative to pos-

    itive voltage) with a similar absolute onset voltage. Usually,

    in the case of trap-assisted inelastic tunneling based NDR,

    the NDR feature itself is absent during bipolar voltage scan.

    This is because the trapped electrons during negative voltage

    scans take time to be detrapped again. Before detrapping is

    completed, traps are occupied; thus, no more trap-assisted

    inelastic tunneling can happen during the positive voltage

    scan. Thus, the odd (bipolar) symmetry of the IVs is strong

    FIG. 1. (Color online) (a) Cross-section scanning electron microscopy images of an as-grown NW sample. Most of NWs have lengths around 1 lm and diame-ters between 150 and 200 nm. (b) Schematic single NW RTD design. The NWs are transferred to a foreign Si substrate with a 100 nm thick SiO2. Ti/Al/Ti/Au

    metal contacts with a 500 nm gap are defined by e-beam lithography and deposited by electron beam evaporation to form two electrodes. (c) The scanning

    electron microscopy image of a working RTD device. It clearly shows a single NW cross the two electrodes as designed. The transferred NWs have lengths

    around 1 lm and diameters between 150 and 200 nm.

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  • evidence of resonant tunneling rather than trap-assistant

    inelastic tunneling. It is worth noting that most of the RTDs

    show symmetrical nonlinear IV characteristics at room

    temperature. We believe this is due to the existence of a

    Schottky barrier between the metal contacts and NWs. The

    exponentially increasing current before the NDR onset volt-

    age is a result of thermionic emission.

    In addition, cryogenic measurements were also per-

    formed. Our RTDs show clear NDR features down to 77 K

    with onset voltage all around 4.5 V [Fig. 3(b)]. It is also

    noted that the NDR onset voltage has a clear positive shift

    when temperature is decreased. This is because the decrease

    of carrier density at low temperature pushes the Fermi level

    farther below the first quasi-bound state in the quantum well.

    Therefore, a higher bias is needed to bend the conduction

    band enough to achieve energy level resonance leading to

    tunneling. In the case of trap-assisted inelastic tunneling,

    electrons would not have enough activation energy to fill up

    traps at low temperatures, and NDR could not occur. Thus,

    the RTD operation at cryogenic temperatures also supports

    resonant tunneling transport mechanism.

    However, in a small number of cases, RTDs show multi-

    ple NDR features during a single voltage scan [Fig. 3(a)].

    Besides the onset voltage between 3.5 V and 4.5 V as most

    RTDs have, some RTDs also show other NDR features at

    lower bias. We also have observed NDR features that appear

    only during the first few scans in some devices. In these devi-

    ces, the PVCR, though high at the beginning, becomes com-

    pressed until disappearing completely in subsequent scans.

    Figure 4(a) shows the comparison of IV characteristics of a

    fresh device and after it is aged. The current difference before

    the onset of NDR between the two measurements is simply

    the tunneling current. The exact mechanism of device

    degradation after electrical stressing is unknown and under

    investigation. This is also in debate for thin film GaN RTDs,

    but it is widely accepted that the device degradation is a

    result of high density threading dislocations in epitaxial thin

    films due to the large lattice mismatch between GaN and sub-

    strates.9 For nanowire RTDs, we attribute the device degrada-

    tion to the radial growth of long nanowires. Our hypothesis is

    that such unexpected NDR features may be associated with

    the three-dimensional heterostructure contained within the

    NW. Though the preferential growth direction is in the c-

    axis, in the case of AlN, however, growth occurs along both

    the axial and radial direction due to the minimal adatom dif-

    fusion length of Al at the growth temperatures used.18,19 As

    described above, the wedge shaped NW indicates that growth

    occurs not only along the axial direction, but also radially.

    Catalyst-free III-nitrides grown by PAMBE are well known

    to exhibit radial growth. Previously, we found that GaN

    radial growth is suppressed using the two-step growth method

    described above. However, the original studies were confined

    to shorter nanowires that were at most 200 nm in length. It is

    likely that for the long growth times needed to form 1 lm

    FIG. 2. (Color online) Simulated band diagram of designed AlN/GaN double

    barrier hereostructure. It also includes the first two quasi-bound states and

    electron wavefuctions within the AlN/GaN quantum well in the conduction

    band at equilibrium.

    FIG. 3. (Color online) (a) Room temperature IV characteristics of NW

    AlN/GaN double barrier RTDs. The NDR feature appears during bipolar

    voltage scan. (b) Cryogenic IV characteristics of NW AlN/GaN double bar-

    rier RTDs. It shows a positive NDR onset voltage shift when temperature

    goes down. Zoom-in views of NDR features are shown in the insets.

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  • long wires, radial growth of GaN must be occurring, which

    differs from recent observation of Fernandez-Garrido.21 The

    resulting three-dimensional heterostructure is schematically

    drawn in Fig. 4(b). The growth rate ratio between axial and

    radial growth is over 10. In other words, 1.5 nm thick axial

    AlN barrier growth results a core shell growth of AlN in a

    range of few angstroms or less, especially at the foot of nano-

    wires. We propose that the device degradation is due to the

    alloy scattering or island scattering taking place at the bottom

    surface of nanowires in the electron transport process due to

    the small amount of Al deposition resulted from the Al ada-

    tom diffusion.

    We modeled the leakage current [thermionic emission

    current, blue circles in Fig. 4(a)] in an aged device after the

    NDR feature disappears, as a pair of back to back Schottky

    diodes with a shunt resistor in parallel. In the equivalent cir-

    cuit shown in the inset of Fig. 4(a), once the lateral voltage

    drop is established at either side, the current will flow as like

    in a reversely biased metal-n-GaN Schottky diode dominated

    by the energy barrier. As shown in Fig. 4(a), the fitted cur-

    rent is the sum of reverse saturation current, the barrier low-

    ering effect under an electrical field, and the shunt current.

    The fitted energy barrier is 0.25 eV and the shunt conduct-

    ance Gp is 2.68 106 S. The modeled current has a verygood agreement with the experimental results. Since the

    thermionic emission current is essentially the same after

    NDR disappears as shown in Fig. 3(a), it is suggested that

    the radial growth is likely the reason to cause device degra-

    dation, e.g., NDR disappears after electrical stressing, but

    the shunt resistance is essentially the same. This is not unrea-

    sonable because the shunt path current should be going along

    the path of Al poor regions or domains on the nanowire sur-

    face. To verify this hypothesis, current research efforts are

    being directed to develop an etching process to etch the AlN

    sidewalls before device processing.

    IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

    In summary, we have demonstrated AlN/GaN double bar-

    rier single NW based RTDs. IV characteristics show clear

    NDR at both room temperature and cryogenic temperatures

    with an onset voltage between 3.5 V and 4.5 V. NDR fea-

    tures at bipolar voltage biases and at cryogenic temperatures

    suggest that the electron transport in these devices is reso-

    nant tunneling rather than trap-assisted tunneling. The device

    degradation observed in some devices is likely caused by the

    radial growth of AlN during the long growth time of nano-

    wires due to the minimal adatom diffusion length of Al at

    the growth temperatures.

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    This work was partially supported by National Science

    Foundation and Office of Naval Research.

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