Ashutosh Kumar
(National Institute for Materials Science
)
;
Martin Berg
;
Qin Wang
;
Jun Uzuhashi
(National Institute for Materials Science
)
;
Tadakatsu Ohkubo
(National Institute for Materials Science
)
;
Michael Salter
;
Peter Ramvall
説明:
(abstract)Here, we investigate the effects of O2:N2 (1:1) as ambient gas as compared with pure N2 during activation annealing of Mg as p-type doping in GaN layers grown by MOCVD. The purpose is to understand the impact of O2 on the resulting free hole concentration and hole mobility using SIMS, XRD, STEM, AFM and Hall effect measurements. Even though the presence of O2 in the ambient gas during annealing is very effective in reducing the H level of the Mg-doped GaN layers, the maximum achievable hole concentration and mobility is still higher with pure N2. The differences are explained by an in-diffusion of O to the GaN layer acting as n-dopant and thus giving rise to a compensation effect. The Mg-H complexes at substitutional (MgGa), i.e., the electrically active acceptor sites that provide free holes, are preferentially activated by annealing with N2 only as ambient gas, while annealing with O2:N2 (1:1) also dissociates electrically inactive Mg-H complexes resulting in much less residual H. At the lower growth pressure of 150 mbar compared to higher growth pressure of 300 mbar, an increasing carbon incorporation leads to a compensation effect drastically reducing the free hole concentration while the mobility is unaffected.
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キーワード: gallium nitride, scanning transmission electron microscopy, semiconductor, activation
刊行年月日: 2023-07-21
出版者: AIP Publishing
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原稿種別: 著者最終稿 (Accepted manuscript)
MDR DOI: https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.4233
公開URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139114
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更新時刻: 2024-01-05 22:12:15 +0900
MDRでの公開時刻: 2023-09-28 13:30:15 +0900
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