Connection between Carbon Incorporation and Growth Rate for GaN Epitaxial Layers Prepared by OMVPE
Abstract
Carbon, a compensator in GaN, is an inherent part of the organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) environment due to the use of organometallic sources. In this study, the impact of growth conditions are explored on the incorporation of carbon in GaN prepared via OMVPE on pseudo-bulk GaN wafers (in several cases, identical growths were performed on GaN-on-Al2O3 templates for comparison purposes). Growth conditions with different growth efficiencies but identical ammonia molar flows, when normalized for growth rate, resulted in identical carbon incorporation. It is concluded that only trimethylgallium which contributes to growth of the GaN layer contributes to carbon incorporation. Carbon incorporation was found to decrease proportionally with increasing ammonia molar flow, when normalized for growth rate. Ammonia molar flow divided by growth rate is proposed as a reactor independent predictor of carbon incorporation as opposed to the often-reported input V/III ratio. A low carbon concentration of 7.3 × 1014 atoms/cm3 (prepared at a growth rate of 0.57 µm/h) was obtained by optimizing growth conditions for GaN grown on pseudo-bulk GaN substrates.
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- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Materials
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- Journal Name: Materials Journal Volume: 12 Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1944
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- MDPI AG
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- Switzerland
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- English
Citation Formats
Ciarkowski, Timothy, Allen, Noah, Carlson, Eric, McCarthy, Robert, Youtsey, Chris, Wang, Jingshan, Fay, Patrick, Xie, Jinqiao, and Guido, Louis. Connection between Carbon Incorporation and Growth Rate for GaN Epitaxial Layers Prepared by OMVPE. Switzerland: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.3390/ma12152455.
Ciarkowski, Timothy, Allen, Noah, Carlson, Eric, McCarthy, Robert, Youtsey, Chris, Wang, Jingshan, Fay, Patrick, Xie, Jinqiao, & Guido, Louis. Connection between Carbon Incorporation and Growth Rate for GaN Epitaxial Layers Prepared by OMVPE. Switzerland. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152455
Ciarkowski, Timothy, Allen, Noah, Carlson, Eric, McCarthy, Robert, Youtsey, Chris, Wang, Jingshan, Fay, Patrick, Xie, Jinqiao, and Guido, Louis. Thu .
"Connection between Carbon Incorporation and Growth Rate for GaN Epitaxial Layers Prepared by OMVPE". Switzerland. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152455.
@article{osti_1545967,
title = {Connection between Carbon Incorporation and Growth Rate for GaN Epitaxial Layers Prepared by OMVPE},
author = {Ciarkowski, Timothy and Allen, Noah and Carlson, Eric and McCarthy, Robert and Youtsey, Chris and Wang, Jingshan and Fay, Patrick and Xie, Jinqiao and Guido, Louis},
abstractNote = {Carbon, a compensator in GaN, is an inherent part of the organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) environment due to the use of organometallic sources. In this study, the impact of growth conditions are explored on the incorporation of carbon in GaN prepared via OMVPE on pseudo-bulk GaN wafers (in several cases, identical growths were performed on GaN-on-Al2O3 templates for comparison purposes). Growth conditions with different growth efficiencies but identical ammonia molar flows, when normalized for growth rate, resulted in identical carbon incorporation. It is concluded that only trimethylgallium which contributes to growth of the GaN layer contributes to carbon incorporation. Carbon incorporation was found to decrease proportionally with increasing ammonia molar flow, when normalized for growth rate. Ammonia molar flow divided by growth rate is proposed as a reactor independent predictor of carbon incorporation as opposed to the often-reported input V/III ratio. A low carbon concentration of 7.3 × 1014 atoms/cm3 (prepared at a growth rate of 0.57 µm/h) was obtained by optimizing growth conditions for GaN grown on pseudo-bulk GaN substrates.},
doi = {10.3390/ma12152455},
journal = {Materials},
number = 15,
volume = 12,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152455
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