Plasmon-assisted dissipation of LO-mode heat in nitride 2DEG channels

A bottleneck for heat dissipation is discussed in terms of plasmon-assisted decay of nonequilibrium longitudinal optical phonons launched by hot electrons. According to experiment at low and moderate electric fields, the fastest decay takes place at electron density of ~6.7×1012 cm-2 and ~2.7×1012 cm-2 for heterostructures with 2DEG channels located in GaN and GaInAs, respectively. Hot-electron temperature and gate voltage can be used to shift the optimal density. A GaN-based heterostructure field effect transistor degrades slower when dissipation of the LO-mode heat is faster.

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