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 …

Emerging ferroelectric materials ScAlN: applications and prospects in memristors

DP Yang, XG Tang, QJ Sun, JY Chen, YP Jiang… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The research found that after do** with rare earth elements, a large number of electrons
and holes will be produced on the surface of AlN, which makes the material have the …

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 …

Understanding Interfaces in AlScN/GaN Heterostructures

I Streicher, S Leone, M Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aluminum scandium nitride barrier layers increase the available sheet charge carrier density
in gallium nitride‐based high‐electron‐mobility transistors and boost the output power of …

A review of oriented wurtzite-structure aluminum nitride films

H Yang, J Sun, H Wang, H Li, B Yang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024 - Elsevier
Aluminum nitride (AlN), distinguished by exceptional mechanical, optical, and electronic
properties, has found extensive applications in diverse domains, including heat dissipation …

Perspectives on nitride ferroelectric semiconductors: Challenges and opportunities

D Wang, S Yang, J Liu, D Wang, Z Mi - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The recent demonstration of ferroelectricity in nitride materials has enabled a broad
spectrum of applications across electronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, photonics …

[HTML][HTML] Two-dimensional electron gases in AlYN/GaN heterostructures grown by metal–organic chemical vapor deposition

I Streicher, P Straňák, L Kirste, M Prescher, S Müller… - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Wurtzite AlN alloyed with group 3 elements Sc and Y boosts the performance of GaN-based
high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) significantly as they increase the spontaneous …

[HTML][HTML] Aluminum-Nitride-Based Semiconductors: Growth Processes, Ferroelectric Properties, and Performance Enhancements

L Wang, J Cheng, K Qu, Q Zhu, B Tian, Z Yang - Inorganics, 2025 - mdpi.com
Aluminum nitride (AlN)-based ferroelectric films offer significant advantages, including
compatibility with CMOS back-end processes, potential for sustainable miniaturization, and …

Interpolation and differentiation of alchemical degrees of freedom in machine learning interatomic potentials

J Nam, J Peng, R Gómez-Bombarelli - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.10746, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become a workhorse of modern
atomistic simulations, and recently published universal MLIPs, pre-trained on large datasets …

Ammonothermal Crystal Growth of Functional Nitrides for Semiconductor Devices: Status and Potential

T Wostatek, VYMR Chirala, N Stoddard, EN Civas… - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
The state-of-the-art ammonothermal method for the growth of nitrides is reviewed here, with
an emphasis on binary and ternary nitrides beyond GaN. A wide range of relevant aspects …