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Fabrication of Schottky Diodes on Zn-polar BeMgZnO/ZnO Heterostructure Grown by Plasma-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Published on: October 23, 2018
High-performance piezoelectric gate diode of a single polar-surface dominated ZnO nanobelt
Ya Yang1, Junjie Qi, Qingliang Liao
1Department of Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We report a piezoelectric gated diode that is composed of a single ZnO nanobelt with +/- (0001) polar surfaces being connected to an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode and an atomic force microscopy (AFM) tip, respectively. The electrical transport is controlled by both the Schottky barrier and the piezoelectric barrier modulated by the applied forces. The diode exhibits a high ON/OFF current ratio (up to 1.6 x 10(4)) and a low threshold force of about 180 nN at 4.5 V bias. The electrical hysteresis is suggested to be attributed to be carrier trapping in the piezoelectric electric field.
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