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Low-temperature performance of semiconducting asymmetric nanochannel diodes
Ist Teil von
Journal of physics. Conference series, 2017-10, Vol.906 (1), p.12001
Ort / Verlag
Bristol: IOP Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Quelle
Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
We present our studies on fabrication and electrical and optical characterization of semiconducting asymmetric nanochannel diodes (ANCDs), focusing mainly on the temperature dependence of their current-voltage (I-V) characteristics in the range from room temperature to 77 K. These measurements enable us to elucidate the electron transport mechanism in a nanochannel. Our test devices were fabricated in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure with a two-dimensional electron gas layer and were patterned using electron-beam lithography. The 250-nm-wide, 70-nm-deep trenches that define the nanochannel were ion-beam etched using the photoresist as a mask, so the resulting nanostructure consisted of approximately ten ANCDs connected in parallel with 2-µm-long, 230-nm-wide nanochannels. The ANCD I-V curves collected in the dark exhibited nonlinear, diode-type behavior at all tested temperatures. Their forward-biased regions were fitted to the classical diode equation with a thermionic barrier, with the ideality factor n and the saturation current as fitting parameters. We have obtained very good fits, but with n as large as ∼50, suggesting that there must be a substantial voltage drop likely at the contact pads. The thermionic energy barrier was determined to be 56 meV at high temperatures. We have also observed that under optical illumination our ANCDs at low temperatures exhibited, at low illumination powers, a very strong photoresponse enhancement that exceeded that at room temperature. At 78 K, the responsivity was of the order of 104 A/W at the nW-level light excitation.