Spatial variations of doping and lifetime in epitaxial laterally overgrown GaN

E. B. Yakimov, P. S. Vergeles, A. Y. Polyakov, N. B. Smirnov, A. V. Govorkov, In Hwan Lee, Cheul Ro Lee, S. J. Pearton

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Abstract

Spatial variations of donor concentration and diffusion length/lifetime were studied for epitaxial laterally overgrown undoped n-GaN samples by electron beam induced current (EBIC) and microcathodoluminescence (MCL). The dependence of the EBIC signal collection efficiency on the probing beam accelerating voltage shows that the local electron concentration is three times lower and the local lifetime about twice as high in the laterally overgrown regions compared to the regions grown in the SiO2 mask windows. Band edge MCL profiling shows that the lifetime difference could be an order of magnitude higher. EBIC scans along the SiO2 stripes in the low dislocation density overgrown regions show long propagation distances of holes in the quasineutral part of the structure, explained by the existence of a potential profile forming a trough for transport of holes while spatially separating nonequilibrium carriers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number152114
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume90
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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Funding Information:
The work at IRM was supported in part by a grant from Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Grant No. 05-02-08015) and ICTS (Grant No. 3029). The work at UF is partially supported by NSF DMR-040010.

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  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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