Observation of 2D-magnesium-intercalated gallium nitride superlattices

Observation of 2D-magnesium-intercalated gallium nitride superlattices

5 June 2024 | Jia Wang1,2, Wentao Cai2, Weifang Lu3,6, Shun Lu4, Emi Kano5, Verdad C. Agulto5, Biplab Sarkar5,7, Hirotaka Watanabe2, Nobuyuki Ikarashi2, Toshiyuki Iwamoto5, Makoto Nakajima5, Yoshio Honda1,2, Hiroshi Amano1,2,3
This study reports the spontaneous formation of 2D magnesium (Mg)-intercalated gallium nitride (GaN) superlattices through annealing a metallic Mg film on GaN at atmospheric pressure. This process, characterized as interstitial intercalation, results in a significant uniaxial compressive strain perpendicular to the interstitial layers, with the GaN layers exhibiting an exceptional elastic strain exceeding -10%. The strain alters the electronic band structure and enhances hole transport along the compression direction. Additionally, the Mg sheets induce a periodic transition in GaN polarity, generating polarization-field-induced net charges. These findings offer new insights into semiconductor doping, conductivity enhancement, and elastic strain engineering of nanomaterials and metal-semiconductor superlattices. The study also highlights the perfect lattice match between GaN and Mg, which reduces the lattice mismatch strain and facilitates the spontaneous formation of 2D-Mg on GaN. The enhanced hole transport and modified surface potential of GaN due to the MiGs structure have technological implications, such as improved barrier height for n-type Schottky barrier diodes and reduced contact resistivity for p-type GaN, enabling ohmic contact.This study reports the spontaneous formation of 2D magnesium (Mg)-intercalated gallium nitride (GaN) superlattices through annealing a metallic Mg film on GaN at atmospheric pressure. This process, characterized as interstitial intercalation, results in a significant uniaxial compressive strain perpendicular to the interstitial layers, with the GaN layers exhibiting an exceptional elastic strain exceeding -10%. The strain alters the electronic band structure and enhances hole transport along the compression direction. Additionally, the Mg sheets induce a periodic transition in GaN polarity, generating polarization-field-induced net charges. These findings offer new insights into semiconductor doping, conductivity enhancement, and elastic strain engineering of nanomaterials and metal-semiconductor superlattices. The study also highlights the perfect lattice match between GaN and Mg, which reduces the lattice mismatch strain and facilitates the spontaneous formation of 2D-Mg on GaN. The enhanced hole transport and modified surface potential of GaN due to the MiGs structure have technological implications, such as improved barrier height for n-type Schottky barrier diodes and reduced contact resistivity for p-type GaN, enabling ohmic contact.
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