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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 28, 期 22, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705823
关键词
2DEG; AlGaN/GaN; polarization; Seebeck coefficients; thermal conductivity
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资金
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro Thermal Systems (POETS) [EEC-1449548]
- NSF DMREF grant [1534279]
- Hanyang University (HY)
- NSF as part of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) [ECCS-1542152]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1534279] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Progress in wide bandgap, III-V material systems based on gallium nitride (GaN) has enabled the realization of high-power and high-frequency electronics. Since the highly conductive, 2D electron gas (2DEG) at the aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN)/GaN interface is based on built-in polarization fields and is confined to nanoscale thicknesses, its charge carriers exhibit much higher mobilities compared to their doped counterparts. This study shows that such 2DEGs also offer the unique ability to manipulate electrical transport separately from thermal transport, through the examination of fully suspended AlGaN/GaN diaphragms of varied GaN buffer layer thickness. Notably, approximate to 100 nm thin GaN layers can considerably impede heat flow without electrical transport degradation. These achieve 4x improvement in the thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) over externally doped GaN, with state-of-the-art power factors of 4-7 mW m(-1) K-2. The remarkable tuning behavior and thermoelectric enhancement, elucidated here for the first time in a polarization-based heterostructure, are achieved because electrons are at the heterostructured interface, while phonons are within the material system. These results highlight the potential for using 2DEGs in III-V materials for on-chip thermal sensing and energy harvesting.
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