Assignments of vibrational lines to OD-impurity complexes for adventitious impurities in β-Ga2O3

Autor: Andrew Venzie, Michael Stavola, W. Beall Fowler, Evan R. Glaser, Marko J. Tadjer, Jason I. Forbus, Mary Ellen Zvanut, Stephen J. Pearton
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: APL Materials, Vol 12, Iss 7, Pp 071108-071108-5 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2166-532X
DOI: 10.1063/5.0219979
Popis: Hydrogen in β-Ga2O3 passivates shallow impurities and deep-level defects and can have a strong effect on conductivity. More than a dozen O–D vibrational lines have been reported for β-Ga2O3 treated with the heavy isotope of hydrogen, deuterium. To explain the large number of O–D centers that have been observed, the involvement of additional nearby defects and impurities has been proposed. A few O–H centers have been associated with specific impurities that were introduced intentionally during crystal growth. However, definitive assignments of O–H and O–D vibrational lines associated with important adventitious impurities, such as Si and Fe, have been difficult. A set of well-characterized Si-doped β-Ga2O3 epitaxial layers with different layer thicknesses has been deuterated and investigated by vibrational spectroscopy to provide new evidence for the assignment of a line at 2577 cm−1 to an OD–Si complex. The vibrational properties of several of the reported OD-impurity complexes are consistent with the existence of a family of defects with a VGa1ic−D center at their core that is perturbed by a nearby impurity.
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