Resonant Tunneling through Monolayer Si Colloidal Quantum Dots and Ge Nanocrystals

Resonant tunneling through a 4 nm nanocrystal Ge (nc‐Ge) layer and a 2.4 nm monolayer of Si colloidal quantum dots (QD) is achieved with 0.7 nm amorphous Al₂O₃ (a‐Al₂O₃) barriers. The nc‐Ge resonant tunneling diode (RTD) demonstrates a peak‐to‐valley current ratio (PVCR) of 8 and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 30 mV at 300 K, the best performance among RTDs based on annealed nanocrystals. The Si QD RTD is first achieved with PVCRs up to 47 and FWHMs as small as 10 mV at room temperature, confirming theoretically expected excellences of 3D carrier confinements. The high performances are partially due to the smooth profile of nc‐Ge layer and the uniform distribution of Si QDs, which reduce the adverse influences of many‐body effects. More importantly, carrier decoherence is avoided in the 0.7 nm a‐Al₂O₃ barriers thinner than the phase coherence length (≈1.5 nm). Ultrathin a‐Al₂O₃ also passivates well materials and suppresses leakage currents. Additionally, the interfacial bandgap of ultrathin a‐Al₂O₃ is found to be similar to the bulk, forming deep potential wells to sharpen transmission curves. This work can be easily extended to other materials, which may enable resonant tunneling in various nanosystems for diverse purposes.     

Gas Sensing of NiO‐SCCNT Core–Shell Heterostructures: Optimization by Radial Modulation of the Hole‐Accumulation Layer

Hierarchical core–shell (C–S) heterostructures composed of a NiO shell deposited onto stacked‐cup carbon nanotubes (SCCNTs) are synthesized by atomic layer deposition (ALD). A film of NiO particles (0.80–21.8 nm in thickness) is uniformly deposited onto the inner and outer walls of the SCCNTs. The electrical resistance of the samples is found to increase of many orders of magnitude with the increasing of the NiO thickness. The response of NiO–SCCNT sensors toward low concentrations of acetone and ethanol at 200 °C is studied. The sensing mechanism is based on the modulation of the hole‐accumulation region in the NiO shell layer upon chemisorption of the reducing gas molecules. The electrical conduction mechanism is further studied by the incorporation of an Al₂O₃ dielectric layer at NiO and SCCNT interfaces. The investigations on NiO–Al₂O₃–SCCNT, Al₂O₃–SCCNT, and NiO–SCCNT coaxial heterostructures reveal that the sensing mechanism is strictly related to the NiO shell layer. The remarkable performance of the NiO–SCCNT sensors toward acetone and ethanol benefits from the conformal coating by ALD, large surface area of the SCCNTs, and the optimized p‐NiO shell layer thickness followed by the radial modulation of the space‐charge region.     

ALD氧化铝薄膜介电性能及其在硅电容器的应用

硅基高密度电容器是利用半导体3D深硅槽技术和应用高介电常数(高K)材料制作的电容。相比钽电容和多层陶瓷电容(MLCC),硅基电容具有十年以上的寿命、工作温度范围大、容值温度系数小以及损耗低等优点。文章研究原子层沉积(ALD)制备的Al2O3薄膜的介电特性,通过优化ALD原子沉积温度和退火工艺,发现在沉积温度420℃和O3气氛退火5 min下,ALD生长的Al2O3薄膜击穿强度可大于0.7 V/nm,相对介电常数达8.7。制成的硅基电容器电容密度达到50 nF/mm2,漏电流小于5 nA/mm2。     

真空炉加热区的热场分析

加热区是真空炉的核心部分,加热区设计是否合理直接影响着真空炉的使用性能及其运营成本。运用有限元仿真对典型真空炉加热区的热场进行分析,并通过实验数据,进一步验证真空炉加热区的设计合理性,掌握了其温场的实际温度分布情况,为今后设计类似炉型的真空炉加热区提供重要参考依据。     

Cross‐Layer Resource Allocation Scheme for WLANs with Multipacket Reception

Tailored for wireless local area networks, the present paper proposes a cross‐layer resource allocation scheme for multiple‐input multiple‐output orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing systems. Our cross‐layer resource allocation scheme consists of three stages. Firstly, the condition of sharing the subchannel by more than one user is studied. Secondly, the subchannel allocation policy which depends on the data packets’ lengths and the admissible combination of users per subchannel is proposed. Finally, the bits and corresponding power are allocated to users based on a greedy algorithm and the data packets’ lengths. The analysis and simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme not only achieves significant improvement in system throughput and average packet delay compared with conventional schemes but also has low computational complexity.     

有机层／阴极界面修饰对体异质结聚合物太阳能电池性能的影响

通过制备四种不同结构的器件,详细分析研究了活性层／阴极界面修饰对P3HT:PCBM聚合物体异质结太阳能电池性能的影响。当在P3HT:PCBM薄膜上旋涂一层PCBM,并蒸镀0.5 nm LiF时所制备的器件的填充因子和光电转换效率都得到较大的提高。对器件的光电性能和薄膜的形貌进行深入分析,阐明界面修饰的作用机理。     

可见光LED的进展——超高亮度LED及应用(二)

可见光ＬＥＤ的进展——超高亮度ＬＥＤ及应用（二）张万生梁春广（电子工业部第十三研究所，石家庄，０５００５１）４超高亮度发光管的发展［９～１４］４．１ＩｎＧａＡｌＰＤＨＬＥＤ发光强度达到坎德拉级发光管的高亮度化一直是半导体材料和器件的前沿课题之一，超高...     

硅探测器加工中的离子注入工艺设计与控制

应用离子注入工艺可制备获得线性电流大、窗口死层薄的硅pin辐射探测器。首先简要介绍了离子注入工艺形成pn结的原理,重点根据技术要求进行了离子注入工艺设计和计算,分别得到了注入能量为40 keV和注入剂量为4×1014/cm2的两个重要控制参数。同时分析了在离子注入工艺中存在的影响因素和相应处理方法,对生产具有良好的指导作用。采用所设计的工艺参数制备获得的硅pin辐射探测器各项技术指标均满足要求,验证了离子注入工艺设计与参数控制的有效性。     

铁电畴层波的电光效应

铁电１８０°畴结构在超声波作用下将被诱导出沿畴壁传播的铁电畴层波，其电场导致了构成铁电１８０°畴结构的晶体的电光效应，畴结构的光率体发生了改变，晶体的主折射率受到激发铁电畴层波的超声波的调节。这一效应在声光控制和超声检测方面有应用价值。     

Efficient Charge Injection in Organic Field‐Effect Transistors Enabled by Low‐Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Ultrathin VOx Interlayer

Charge injection at metal/organic interface is a critical issue for organic electronic devices in general as poor charge injection would cause high contact resistance and severely limit the performance of organic devices. In this work, a new approach is presented to enhance the charge injection by using atomic layer deposition (ALD) to prepare an ultrathin vanadium oxide (VO_x) layer as an efficient hole injection interlayer for organic field‐effect transistors (OFETs). Since organic materials are generally delicate, a gentle low‐temperature ALD process is necessary for compatibility. Therefore, a new low‐temperature ALD process is developed for VO_x at 50 °C using a highly volatile vanadium precursor of tetrakis(dimethylamino)vanadium and non‐oxidizing water as the oxygen source. The process is able to prepare highly smooth, uniform, and conformal VO_x thin films with precise control of film thickness. With this ALD process, it is further demonstrated that the ALD VO_x interlayer is able to remarkably reduce the interface contact resistance, and, therefore, significantly enhance the device performance of OFETs. Multiple combinations of the metal/VO_x/organic interface (i.e., Cu/VO_x/pentacene, Au/VO_x/pentacene, and Au/VO_x/BOPAnt) are examined, and the results uniformly show the effectiveness of reducing the contact resistance in all cases, which, therefore, highlights the broad promise of this ALD approach for organic devices applications in general.