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Diode-like characteristics of nanometer-scale semiconductor channels with a broken symmetry

Song, AM ; Maximov, Ivan LU ; Missous, M and Seifert, Werner LU (2004) Eleventh International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures 21(2-4). p.1116-1120
Abstract
We present a new type of nanometer-scale semiconductor nonlinear device, called self-switching device (SSD). The device was realized by simply etching insulating grooves into a semiconductor, between which a narrow channel with a broken symmetry was formed. Because of the asymmetry in the channel boundary, an applied voltage V not only changes the potential profile along the channel direction, but also either widens or narrows the effective channel width depending on the sign of V. This results in a diode-like current-voltage characteristic but without the use of any doping junction or barrier structure. The turn-on voltage can also be widely tuned from virtually 0 to more than 10 V by simply adjusting the channel width. Furthermore, only... (More)
We present a new type of nanometer-scale semiconductor nonlinear device, called self-switching device (SSD). The device was realized by simply etching insulating grooves into a semiconductor, between which a narrow channel with a broken symmetry was formed. Because of the asymmetry in the channel boundary, an applied voltage V not only changes the potential profile along the channel direction, but also either widens or narrows the effective channel width depending on the sign of V. This results in a diode-like current-voltage characteristic but without the use of any doping junction or barrier structure. The turn-on voltage can also be widely tuned from virtually 0 to more than 10 V by simply adjusting the channel width. Furthermore, only one lithography step was needed to fabricate SSDs. We used two different material systems, InGaAs-InP and InGaAs-InAlAs, to realize SSDs and the results at room temperature were compared. We also show that by adding a third terminal to an SSD as a gate, the turn-on voltage of the device could be tuned by the gate bias and the device functions either as a tunable diode or as a transistor. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)
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InGaAs-InAlAs, nonlinear, nanodevice, symmetry, InGaAs-InP
host publication
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures (Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures)
volume
21
issue
2-4
pages
1116 - 1120
publisher
Elsevier
conference name
Eleventh International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures
conference location
Nara, Japan
conference dates
2003-07-14 - 2003-07-18
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  • wos:000220873300200
  • scopus:1642352582
ISSN
1386-9477
DOI
10.1016/j.physe.2003.11.190
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English
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  abstract     = {{We present a new type of nanometer-scale semiconductor nonlinear device, called self-switching device (SSD). The device was realized by simply etching insulating grooves into a semiconductor, between which a narrow channel with a broken symmetry was formed. Because of the asymmetry in the channel boundary, an applied voltage V not only changes the potential profile along the channel direction, but also either widens or narrows the effective channel width depending on the sign of V. This results in a diode-like current-voltage characteristic but without the use of any doping junction or barrier structure. The turn-on voltage can also be widely tuned from virtually 0 to more than 10 V by simply adjusting the channel width. Furthermore, only one lithography step was needed to fabricate SSDs. We used two different material systems, InGaAs-InP and InGaAs-InAlAs, to realize SSDs and the results at room temperature were compared. We also show that by adding a third terminal to an SSD as a gate, the turn-on voltage of the device could be tuned by the gate bias and the device functions either as a tunable diode or as a transistor. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}},
  author       = {{Song, AM and Maximov, Ivan and Missous, M and Seifert, Werner}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures (Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures)}},
  issn         = {{1386-9477}},
  keywords     = {{InGaAs-InAlAs; nonlinear; nanodevice; symmetry; InGaAs-InP}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2-4}},
  pages        = {{1116--1120}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  title        = {{Diode-like characteristics of nanometer-scale semiconductor channels with a broken symmetry}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2003.11.190}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.physe.2003.11.190}},
  volume       = {{21}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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