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p-NiO/LiNiO-GaN heterojunctions: a potential alternative to p-GaN for advanced devices

Hao, Zheng  
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Floriduz, Alessandro  
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Zong, Yuan  
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2025
IEEE Electron Device Letters

In this work, we introduce a p-NiO/LiNiO stack grown via low-temperature deposition processes, offering an effective alternative for creating localized p-type regions in GaN devices. This stack combines a high hole concentration p-NiO film ([h] = 2 × 1019 cm-3) with an epitaxially crystalline p-LiNiO film, resulting in a high-quality p-type layer that can be flexibly deposited and patterned on GaN devices. Here, we investigate the transport and breakdown properties of the p-NiO/LiNiO-GaN heterojunction by fabricating a p-NiO/LiNiO-GaN PiN diode. The PiN diode exhibited excellent electrical performance, including a low turn-on voltage (VON) of 1.7 V, a low specific on-state resistance (RON, sp) of 1.15 mΩ·cm2, and a high breakdown voltage (BV) exceeding 1000 V, comparable to those achieved with epitaxial GaN homojunctions. These results highlight the potential of utilizing conductive and compatible p-NiO/LiNiO stacks to replace p-GaN for high-quality localized p-n junctions, simplifying the manufacturability of GaN-based devices and enabling advanced device concepts where p-GaN is challenging to be implemented.

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DOI
10.1109/LED.2025.3549252
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-86000469690

Author(s)
Hao, Zheng  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Floriduz, Alessandro  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Zong, Yuan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Choi, Uiho  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mensi, Mounir  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Matioli, Elison  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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2025

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IEEE Electron Device Letters
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March 25, 2025
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