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Ca dopant site within ion implanted GaN lattice

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OSTI ID:20104738

The authors have investigated the Ca dopant site within the GaN lattice using ion channeling in combination with Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), particle induced x ray emission (PIXE) and nuclear reaction analysis (NRA). Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) grown GaN on c-plane sapphire substrates implanted with {sup 40}Ca at a dose of 1 x 10{sup 15} cm{sup {minus}2} with post-implant annealing were investigated. The channeling results indicate that more than 80% of Ca are near Ga sites even in as-implanted samples, however, they are displaced by {approximately} 0.2 {angstrom} from the Ga sites and that the Ca goes to the exact Ga sites after annealing at 1,100 C. They think that the displaced Ca in the as-implanted samples are electrically compensated due to formation of complex defects with donor like point defects, such as Ca{sub Ga}-V{sub N} and/or Ca{sub Ga}-Ga{sub N}, and that Ca{sub Ga} becomes electrically active when these complex defects are broken and the point defects diffuse away with annealing at 1,100 C.

Research Organization:
State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY (US)
OSTI ID:
20104738
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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