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Thermal Activation of Beryllium in GaN Grown by RF-Plasma Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
Differences in the optical activity of Be in GaN epilayers grown on different surface polarities by rf-plasma molecular beam epitaxy are investigated. Nitrogen-polar GaN doped with Be exhibits a significantly higher intensity of donor-acceptor pair (DAP) photoluminescence (PL) than similarly doped Ga-polar GaN, indicating the Be is incorporating at microscopically different sites, or possibly is forming different compensating complexes. Highly Be-doped Ga-polar GaN apparently forms isolated polarity-inverted regions which then incorporate Be via the N-polar mechanism resulting in the DAP PL. High temperature annealing of the Ga-polar layers both under nitrogen/hydrogen mixtures and under pure nitrogen atmospheres activates the DAP PL.
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