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Persistent photoconductivity in n-type GaN

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OSTI ID:581098

Persistent photoconductivity has been observed in n-type Si-doped GaN grown on sapphire substrates by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. The effect has been seen both in films which are of electrically high quality, based on low temperature photoluminescence (PL) and Hall analysis, and in films which either appear to be compensated or which exhibit strong donor-acceptor pair recombination. The photoconductivity has been observed to persist for several days at room temperature (300K). Modeling of the resistance recovery by a stretched exponential treatment may suggest a distribution of deep level defect centers in the Si-doped GaN films.

OSTI ID:
581098
Report Number(s):
CONF-961202--; ISBN 1-55899-353-3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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