Broken Symmetry Effects due to Polarization on Resonant Tunneling Transport in Double-Barrier Nitride Heterostructures

1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA 4 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 5 Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

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