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 …

Perspectives and progress on wurtzite ferroelectrics: Synthesis, characterization, theory, and device applications

J Casamento, SM Baksa, D Behrendt… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Wurtzite ferroelectrics are an emerging material class that expands the functionality and
application space of wide bandgap semiconductors. Promising physical properties of binary …

Switching it up: New mechanisms revealed in wurtzite-type ferroelectrics

CW Lee, K Yazawa, A Zakutayev, GL Brennecka… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Wurtzite-type ferroelectrics have drawn increasing attention due to the promise of better
performance and integration than traditional oxide ferroelectrics with semiconductors such …

Band alignment and charge carrier transport properties of YAlN/III-nitride heterostructures

D Wang, S Mondal, P Kezer, M Hu, J Liu, Y Wu… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Incorporating rare earth element scandium (Sc) into III-nitride wurtzite lattice offers
remarkable non-oxide ferroelectrics, tunable spontaneous polarization coefficients, and …

Defects and oxygen impurities in ferroelectric wurtzite Al1− xScxN alloys

CW Lee, NU Din, GL Brennecka, P Gorai - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
III-nitrides and related alloys are widely used for optoelectronics and as acoustic resonators.
Ferroelectric wurtzite nitrides are of particular interest because of their potential for direct …

Controlled ferroelectric switching in ultrawide bandgap AlN/ScAlN multilayers

D Wang, P Wang, S Mondal, J Liu, M Hu, M He… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrawide bandgap ferroelectric nitride semiconductors have shown promising applications
in electronic, micromechanical, and optical devices. Current studies, however, have largely …

Point defects and doping in wurtzite LaN

AJE Rowberg, S Mu, CG Van de Walle - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Wurtzite LaN (wz-LaN) is a semiconducting nitride that has piezoelectric and ferroelectric
properties, making it promising for applications in electronics, either as a binary compound …

Molecular beam epitaxy and characterization of ferroelectric quaternary alloy Sc0. 2Al0. 45Ga0. 35N

S Yang, D Wang, MMH Tanim, D Wang, Z Mi - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we demonstrate ferroelectricity in high-quality monocrystalline quaternary alloy
ScAlGaN. Sc 0.2 Al 0.45 Ga 0.35 N films are grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam …

[HTML][HTML] Heteroepitaxy of N-polar AlN on C-face 4H-SiC: Structural and optical properties

M Hu, P Wang, D Wang, Y Wu, S Mondal, D Wang… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
To date, it has remained challenging to achieve N-polar AlN, which is of great importance for
high power, high frequency, and high temperature electronics, acoustic resonators and …

Ferroelectric AlBN films by molecular beam epitaxy

C Savant, V Gund, K Nomoto, T Maeda… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We report the properties of molecular beam epitaxy deposited AlBN thin films on a recently
developed epitaxial nitride metal electrode, Nb 2 N. While a control AlN thin film exhibits …