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  1. Highly conductive Ge-doped AlN with conductivity of 0.3 (Ω cm)−1 and electron concentration of 2 × 1018 cm−3 was realized via a non-equilibrium process comprising ion implantation and annealing at a moderate thermal budget. Similar to a previously demonstrated shallow donor state in Si-implanted AlN, Ge implantation also showed a shallow donor behavior in AlN with an ionization energy ∼80 meV. Ge showed a 3× higher conductivity than its Si counterpart for a similar doping level. Photoluminescence spectroscopy indicated that higher conductivity for Ge-doped AlN was achieved primarily due to lower compensation. This is the highest n-type conductivity reported for AlN doped with Ge to date and demonstration of technologically useful conductivity in Ge-doped AlN.

     
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  2. Record-low p-type resistivities of 9.7 and 37 Ω cm were achieved in Al0.7Ga0.3N and Al0.8Ga0.2N films, respectively, grown on single-crystal AlN substrate by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. A two-band conduction model was introduced to explain the anomalous thermal behavior of resistivity and the Hall coefficient. Relatively heavy Mg doping (5 × 1019 cm−3), in conjunction with compensation control, enabled the formation of an impurity band exhibiting a shallow activation energy of ∼30 meV for a wide temperature range. Valence band conduction associated with a large Mg ionization energy was dominant above 500 K. The apparently anomalous results deviating from the classical semiconductor physics were attributed to fundamentally different Hall scattering factors for impurity and valence band conduction. This work demonstrates the utility of impurity band conduction to achieve technologically relevant p-type conductivity in Al-rich AlGaN.

     
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