Fabrication and Characterization of GaAs Tunnel Diode and ErAs Nanoparticles Enhanced GaAs Tunnel Diode for Multijunction Solar Cell. Issue 1602 (9th May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sogabe, Tomah; Shoji, Yasushi; Ohba, Mitsuyoshi; Shunya, Naito; Miyashita, Naoya; Hung, Chao-Yu; Ogura, Akio; Okada, Yoshitaka
• Is Part Of: MRS proceedings. Issue 1602:(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-05-09
• Subjects: crystal growth, -- photovoltaic, -- electrical properties; Electrical engineering -- Congresses; Physics -- Congresses; Materials -- Research -- Congresses; Materials science -- Congresses; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1557/opl.2014.429
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0272-9172

Abstract

ABSTRACT: We report here the fabrication and characterization of GaAs tunnel diode (TD) and ErAs nanoparticles (Nps) enhanced GaAs TD. Four GaAs TDs with different contact area were fabricated by using MOCVD. We found extremely high peak current density of ∼250A/cm 2 for the TD with r=0.25mm contact area. Moreover a hysteresis loop was appeared during sweeping up and sweeping down the external voltage. A 'vector load line model' was proposed to explain the origin of the shape of the hysteresis loop and the onset of the bistability occurred at the intersect of the loadline and the current-voltage (I-V) curve of TD. Meanwhile, we have grown ErAs Nps on GaAs(100) surface by using MBE and succeeded in overgrowth of GaAs after ErAs deposition. GaAs(p+)/ErAs(Nps)/GaAs(n+) TDs were fabricated and characterized. We found the GaAs sample containing 70s deposition of ErAs showed the best TD behavior. No TD behavior was observed for the sample without addition of ErAs Nps, clearly indicating the strong tunneling enhancement effect from ErAs Nps.