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Surface Potential Measurements of doping and defects in p-GaN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

M. Losurdo ,
M. M. Giangregorio ,
G. Bruno ,
A. S. Brown ,
W. A. Doolittle ,
Gon Namkoong  and
A. J. Ptak
M. Losurdo
Affiliation:
Institute of Inorganic Methodologies and of Plasmas, IMIP-CNR, via Orabona 4–70126 Bari, Italy
M. M. Giangregorio
Affiliation:
Institute of Inorganic Methodologies and of Plasmas, IMIP-CNR, via Orabona 4–70126 Bari, Italy
G. Bruno
Affiliation:
Institute of Inorganic Methodologies and of Plasmas, IMIP-CNR, via Orabona 4–70126 Bari, Italy
A. S. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27709, USA
W. A. Doolittle
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Microelectronic Research Center, 791 Atlantic Dr, Atlanta, GA, USA
Gon Namkoong
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Microelectronic Research Center, 791 Atlantic Dr, Atlanta, GA, USA
A. J. Ptak
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado T. H. Myers, Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
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Abstract

The interaction of Be-, Mg-, and Si- doped GaN epitaxial films with atomic hydrogen, produced by a remote r.f. hydrogen plasma, is investigated. The kinetics of the interaction is monitored in real time by spectroscopic ellipsometry through the measurement of the variation of the GaN pseudodielectric function. The passivation effect of hydrogen is inferred by surface potential measurements using scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM). It is found that the interaction of GaN with hydrogen is a strong function of both the type and level of the doping. Hydrogen treatment is shown to lead to a strong variation of the surface potential and, hence, of the Fermi level position, which is the result of p-dopant passivation by hydrogen. A different interaction of Mg and Be with atomic hydrogen is also observed and monitored in real time by ellipsometry. SKPM is also used for studying the interaction of defects in GaN with atomic hydrogen.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 798: Symposium Y – GaN and Related Alloys , 2003 , Y5.18
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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