Resonant electron-emission from a flat surface AlN/GaN system with carbon nanotube gate electrode Conference

Yilmazoglu, O, Considine, L, Pavlidis, D et al. (2011). Resonant electron-emission from a flat surface AlN/GaN system with carbon nanotube gate electrode . 171-172.

cited authors

  • Yilmazoglu, O; Considine, L; Pavlidis, D; Hartnagel, HL; Joshi, R; Schneider, JJ; Mimura, H; Evtukh, A; Semenenko, M; Litovchenko, V

abstract

  • A polarized AlN/GaN five barrier heterostructure was grown and characterized for resonant electron emission in a diode configuration. Diodes of this type have extremely high resonant tunneling voltages of ∼5 V, which is important for an effective electron emission over the surface gate-electrode vacuum barrier. The surface electrode consists of a carbon nanotube (CNT) network, which is highly conductive and has a good surface potential distribution and electron transparency, which is expected to be higher compared to a thin metal layer. The design proposed in this work aims in demonstrating monochromatic electron emission through the use of a resonant-tunneling configuration, semiconducting surface accelerating layer and a CNT surface gate-electrode.

publication date

  • September 22, 2011

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

start page

  • 171

end page

  • 172