Effects of growth pressure on point defects in unintentionally doped 4H SiC epitaxial layers
JICHAO HU1,1,2,
SUZHEN LUAN1,*
,
RENXU JIA1,
BO PENG1,
YUTIAN WANG1,
YUEHU WANG1,
YUMING ZHANG1
Affiliation
- Key Laboratory of Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, 2 South Taibai Road, Xi’an 710071, PR China
- Faculty of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, No. 5 South Jinhua Road, Xi’an 7100 48 PR China
Abstract
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nintentionally doped 4H SiC (0001) epilayers were performed on 4°off axis substrates under varied pressures condition by
CVD. It has been founded that t he main point defects in 4H SiC epitaxial layers performed under varied pressures are carbon
vacanc y and related complexes. A magnetic method is employed to precisely calculate the concentration of point defects in
specimen. The concentration of carbon vacancy has been reduced from 2.17 ×10 1 7 g 1 to 8.69 ×10 1 6 g 1 with reduced growth
pressure. Reduction of carbon vacanc y in epila yers by decreasing the growth pressure is demonstrated. The reduction
mechanism of the carbon vacanc ies is discussed..
Keywords
Epitaxial growth, Point d efects, BBrillouin function fitting.
Citation
JICHAO HU, SUZHEN LUAN, RENXU JIA, BO PENG, YUTIAN WANG, YUEHU WANG, YUMING ZHANG, Effects of growth pressure on point defects in unintentionally doped 4H SiC epitaxial layers, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 12, 1-2, January-February 2018, pp.86-89 (2018).
Submitted at: Feb. 10, 2017
Accepted at: Feb. 12, 2018