Dawn of nitride ferroelectric semiconductors: from materials to devices

P Wang, D Wang, S Mondal, M Hu… - Semiconductor Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
III-nitride semiconductors are promising optoelectronic and electronic materials and have
been extensively investigated in the past decades. New functionalities, such as …

Fully epitaxial ferroelectric ScAlN grown by molecular beam epitaxy

P Wang, D Wang, NM Vu, T Chiang, JT Heron… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the demonstration of ferroelectricity in ScxAl1-xN grown by molecular beam
epitaxy on GaN templates. Distinct polarization switching is unambiguously observed for …

[HTML][HTML] Wurtzite ScAlN, InAlN, and GaAlN crystals, a comparison of structural, elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric properties

O Ambacher, B Christian, N Feil, DF Urban… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We present detailed investigations of the structural, elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric
properties of scandium aluminum nitride (Sc x Al 1− x N) with the wurtzite crystal structure by …

Metal‐organic chemical vapor deposition of aluminum scandium nitride

S Leone, J Ligl, C Manz, L Kirste… - physica status solidi …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alloys of scandium with AlN exhibit an enhanced piezoelectric coefficient that can boost the
performance of nitride‐based electronic and optoelectronic devices such as high electron …

Ferroelectric N-polar ScAlN/GaN heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy

P Wang, D Wang, S Mondal, Z Mi - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate robust ferroelectricity in single-crystalline wurtzite phase N-polar
ScAlN/GaN heterostructures grown on on-axis c-plane sapphire substrates by molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization induced interface and electron sheet charges of pseudomorphic ScAlN/GaN, GaAlN/GaN, InAlN/GaN, and InAlN/InN heterostructures

O Ambacher, B Christian, M Yassine… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The piezoelectric and spontaneous polarization of wurtzite Sc x Al 1− x N, Ga x Al 1− x N,
and In x Al 1− x N ternary compounds dramatically affects the electrical properties of …

N-polar ScAlN and HEMTs grown by molecular beam epitaxy

P Wang, D Wang, B Wang, S Mohanty, S Diez… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular beam epitaxy of single-phase wurtzite N-polar Sc x Al 1− x N (x∼ 0.11–0.38) has
been demonstrated on sapphire substrates by locking its lattice-polarity to the underlying N …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Epitaxial ScxAl1− xN on GaN exhibits attractive high-K dielectric properties

J Casamento, H Lee, T Maeda, V Gund… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Epitaxial Sc x Al 1− x N thin films of∼ 100 nm thickness grown on metal polar GaN
substrates are found to exhibit significantly enhanced relative dielectric permittivity (ε r) …

Improved AlScN/GaN heterostructures grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

C Manz, S Leone, L Kirste, J Ligl, K Frei… - Semiconductor …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
AlScN/GaN epitaxial heterostructures have raised much interest in recent years, because of
the high potential of such structures for high-frequency and high-power electronic …