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Title: Electrical properties of α-Ga 2 O 3 films grown by halide vapor phase epitaxy on sapphire with α-Cr 2 O 3 buffers

We report on growth and electrical properties of α-Ga2O3films prepared by halide vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) at 500 °C on α-Cr2O3buffers predeposited on sapphire by magnetron sputtering. The α-Cr2O3buffers showed a wide microcathodoluminescence (MCL) peak near 350 nm corresponding to the α-Cr2O3bandgap and a sharp MCL line near 700 nm due to the Cr+intracenter transition. Ohmic contacts to Cr2O3were made with both Ti/Au or Ni, producing linear current–voltage ( I– V) characteristics over a wide temperature range with an activation energy of conductivity of ∼75 meV. The sign of thermoelectric power indicated p-type conductivity of the buffers. Sn-doped, 2- μm-thick α-Ga2O3films prepared on this buffer by HVPE showed donor ionization energies of 0.2–0.25 eV, while undoped films were resistive with the Fermi level pinned at ECof 0.3 eV. The I– V and capacitance–voltage ( C– V) characteristics of Ni Schottky diodes on Sn-doped samples using a Cr2O3buffer indicated the presence of two face-to-face junctions, one between n-Ga2O3and p-Cr2O3, the other due to the Ni Schottky diode with n-Ga2O3. The spectral dependence of the photocurrent measured on the structure showed the presence of three major deep traps with optical ionization thresholds near 1.3, 2, and 2.8 eV. Photoinduced current transient spectroscopy spectra of the structures were dominated by deep traps with an ionization energy of 0.95 eV. These experiments suggest another pathway to obtain p–n heterojunctions in the α-Ga2O3system.

 
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Award ID(s):
1856662
NSF-PAR ID:
10367877
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Institute of Physics
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Applied Physics
Volume:
131
Issue:
21
ISSN:
0021-8979
Page Range / eLocation ID:
Article No. 215701
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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