• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: On reduction of current leakage in GaN by carbon-doping
  • Contributor: Fariza, Aqdas; Lesnik, Andreas; Bläsing, Jürgen; Hoffmann, Marc P.; Hörich, Florian; Veit, Peter; Witte, Hartmut; Dadgar, Armin; Strittmatter, André
  • imprint: AIP Publishing, 2016
  • Published in: Applied Physics Letters
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4968823
  • ISSN: 0003-6951; 1077-3118
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  • Description: <jats:p>Carbon-doping is proposed to reduce the dislocation-mediated leakage currents in the GaN buffer layers. GaN:C grown by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy using propane shows excellent quality up to [C] = 6.7 × 1018 cm−3. Locally probing dislocations by surface scanning potential microscopy reveal a transition from mostly neutral or weakly charged regions to dominantly negatively charged regions relative to the surrounding area at high doping levels. A relation between leakage currents and the relative dislocation charge state exists. Minimum leakage current is achieved if the dominant charge state of dislocation regions becomes negative against the surrounding.</jats:p>