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Searching for THz Gunn oscillations in GaN planar nanodiodes
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Materia
Nanodevices
Monte Carlo method
Terahertz
GaN nanodiodes
Gunn oscillations
Fecha de publicación
2012
Citación.
Íñiguez de la Torre, A. et al. (2012). Searching for THz Gunn oscillations in GaN planar nanodiodes. Journal of Applied Physics 111, 113705.
Resumen
A detailed study of GaN-based planar asymmetric nanodiodes, promising devices for the fabrication of room temperature THz Gunn oscillators, is reported. By using Monte Carlo simulations, an analysis of the static I-V curves and the time-domain evolution of the current obtained when varying some simulation parameters in the diodes has been made. Oscillation frequencies of hundreds of GHz are predicted by the simulations in diodes with micrometric channel lengths. Following simulation guidelines, a first batch of diodes was fabricated. It was found that surface charge depletion effects are stronger than expected and inhibit the onset of the oscillations. Indeed, a simple standard constant surface charge model is not able to reproduce experimental measurements and a self-consistent model must be included in the simulations. Using a self-consistent model, it was found that to achieve oscillations, wider channels and improved geometries are necessary.
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