Hydrogen plasma treatment of β -Ga2O3: Changes in electrical properties and deep trap spectra

A. Y. Polyakov; In Hwan Lee; N. B. Smirnov; E. B. Yakimov; I. V. Shchemerov; A. V. Chernykh; A. I. Kochkova; A. A. Vasilev; F. Ren; P. H. Carey; S. J. Pearton

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Hydrogen plasma treatment of β -Ga₂O₃: Changes in electrical properties and deep trap spectra

A. Y. Polyakov, In Hwan Lee, N. B. Smirnov, E. B. Yakimov, I. V. Shchemerov, A. V. Chernykh, A. I. Kochkova, A. A. Vasilev, F. Ren, P. H. Carey, S. J. Pearton

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The effects of hydrogen plasma treatment of β-Ga₂O₃ grown by halide vapor phase epitaxy and doped with Si are reported. Samples subjected to H plasma exposure at 330 °C developed a wide (∼2.5 μm-thick) region near the surface, depleted of electrons at room temperature. The thickness of the layer is in reasonable agreement with the estimated hydrogen penetration depth in β-Ga₂O₃ based on previous deuterium profiling experiments. Admittance spectroscopy and photoinduced current transient spectroscopy measurements place the Fermi level pinning position in the H treated film near E_c-1.05 eV. Annealing at 450 °C decreased the thickness of the depletion layer to 1.3 μm at room temperature and moved the Fermi level pinning position to E_c-0.8 eV. Further annealing at 550 °C almost restored the starting shallow donor concentration and the spectra of deep traps dominated by E_c-0.8 eV and E_c-1.05 eV observed before hydrogen treatment. It is suggested that hydrogen plasma exposure produces surface damage in the near-surface region and passivates or compensates shallow donors.

Original language	English
Article number	032101
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	115
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5108790
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jul 15

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Hydrogen plasma treatment of β -Ga₂O₃ : Changes in electrical properties and deep trap spectra. / Polyakov, A. Y.; Lee, In Hwan; Smirnov, N. B.; Yakimov, E. B.; Shchemerov, I. V.; Chernykh, A. V.; Kochkova, A. I.; Vasilev, A. A.; Ren, F.; Carey, P. H.; Pearton, S. J.

In: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 115, No. 3, 032101, 15.07.2019.

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