Deep centers in n-GaN grown by reactive molecular beam epitaxy
- 4 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 72 (18) , 2277-2279
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.121274
Abstract
Deep centers in Si-doped n-GaN layers grown by reactive molecular beam epitaxy have been studied by deep-level transient spectroscopy as a function of growth conditions. Si-doped GaN samples grown on a Si-doped n+-GaN contact layer at 800 °C show a dominant trap C1 with activation energy ET=0.44 eV and capture cross-section σT=1.3×10−15 cm−2, while samples grown at 750 °C on an undoped semi-insulating GaN buffer show prominent traps D1 and E1, with ET=0.20 eV and σT=8.4×10−17 cm2, and ET=0.21 eV and σT=1.6×10−14 cm2, respectively. Trap E1 is believed to be related to a N-vacancy defect, since the Arrhenius signature for E1 is very similar to the previously reported trap E, which is produced by 1-MeV electron irradiation in GaN materials grown by both metalorganic chemical-vapor deposition and hydride vapor-phase epitaxy.Keywords
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