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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 9: Focus Session: Oxide Semiconductors for Novel Devices II
HL 9.2: Vortrag
Montag, 1. April 2019, 15:15–15:30, H34
Effective electron mass anisotropy in α-Ga2O3 — •Martin Feneberg1, Jürgen Bläsing1, Rüdiger Goldhahn1, and Kazuaki Akaiwa2 — 1Institut für Physik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg — 2Department of Information and Electronics, Tottori University, Tottori 680-8552, Japan
Metastable α-Ga2O3 is a currently discussed candidate material system for future electronic devices. It is alloyable with corundum α-Al2O3 (sapphire) and α-In2O3. While p-type doping proves to be problematic, n-type doping by the substitutional donor tin is successful up to n>1019 cm−3.
Here, we investigate the infrared optical properties of m-plane (1100) α-Ga2O3 thin films grown on sapphire by mist chemical vapour epitaxy. Spectroscopic ellipsometry and Raman spectroscopy yields a full picture of the anisotropic phonon modes. A free-carrier contribution in degenerately highly doped material is found in the dielectric functions and yields anisotropic plasma frequencies.
By taking the Hall-effect free-electron concentration into account, effective electron masses of m⊥*= 0.297 m0 and m||* = 0.316 m0 are obtained at n=1.1× 1019 cm−3. We finally discuss the nonparabolic dispersion relation of the conduction band rendering these values to be upper limits for the effective masses at the Γ-point of the Brillouin zone.