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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 24: Nitrides: Preparation and characterization I
HL 24.4: Talk
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 10:15–10:30, H31
All-optical determination of free-carrier concentration and composition in cubic GaN and AlGaN — •Elias Baron1, Michael Deppe2, Fabian Tacken2, Donat Josef As2, Martin Feneberg1, and Rüdiger Goldhahn1 — 1Institut für Physik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany — 2Department Physik, Universität Paderborn, Germany
The doping by Ge is shown to be a very efficient way to achieve free electron concentrations n above 1020cm−3 in wurtzite and zincblende GaN and AlGaN layers, while maintaining excellent structural properties. Here, thin films of zincblende III-N were deposited by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on 3C-SiC substrates. Utilizing Kane’s model and the optical effective mass in semiconductors a consistent approach to determine the band structure near the Γ-point of the Brillouin zone is achieved, which is necessary to understand the optical properties. We present a characterization of GaN and AlGaN by spectroscopic ellipsometry from which the complex dielectric function (DF) is obtained. The analysis of the DFs in the mid-infrared yields the transverse-optical phonon frequencies as well as the plasma frequency for doped material. From the latter, the free-carrier concentration can be deduced. On the other hand, studies around the fundamental absorption edge indicate the superposition of n dependent Burstein-Moss effect, band gap renormalization and in case of AlGaN band gap bowing. A self-consistent description of plasma frequency and absorption onset yields both the free-carrier concentration and the composition in case of AlGaN.