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Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of GaN layers doped with Mg atoms to the recognized optimum level of [Mg] $\sim2 \times 10^{19}$ cm$^{-3}$ has been performed. In a sequence of MOCVD runs, operational conditions, including…
The effect of Mg $\delta$-doping on the structural, electrical and optical properties of GaN grown $\textsl{via}$ metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy has been studied using transmission electron microscopy, secondary ion mass spectroscopy,…
Ammonia (NH3) is commonly used as group V precursor in gallium nitride (GaN) metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The high background carbon (C) impurity in MOCVD GaN is related to the low pyrolysis efficiency of NH3, which…
Doping of III-nitride based compound semiconductor nanowires is still a challenging issue to have a control over the dopant distribution in precise locations of the nanowire optoelectronic devices. Knowledge of the dopant incorporation and…
In this study the MOCVD growth and electrical properties of N-polar modulation doped p-AlGaN/GaN superlattices (SLs) were investigated. Hole sheet charge density and mobility were studied as a function of the concentration of the p-type…
We report accurate energetics of defects introduced in GaN on doping with divalent metals, focussing on the technologically important case of Mg doping, using a model which takes into consideration both the effect of hole localisation and…
Orthorhombic-structured II-IV nitrides provide a promising opportunity to expand the material platform while maintaining compatibility with the wurtzite crystal structure of the traditional III-nitride material system. Among them,…
Annealing Mg-implanted homoepitaxial GaN at temperatures at or above 1400 {\deg}C eliminates the formation of inversion domains and leads to improved dopant activation efficiency. Extended defects in the form of inversion domains contain…
We demonstrate that GaN formed in a Nanowall Network (NwN) morphology can overcome fundamental limitations in optoelectronic devices, and enable high light extraction and effective Mg incorporation for efficient p-GaN. We report the growth…
Doping problems in GaN and in AlGaN alloys are addressed on the basis of state-of-the-art first-principles calculations. For n-type doping we find that nitrogen vacancies are too high in energy to be incorporated during growth, but silicon…
We discuss the microstructural origin of enhanced radial growth in magnesium (Mg) doped gallium nitride (GaN) nanorods (NRs) using electron microscopy and \textit{first-principles} Density Functional Theory calculations. Experimentally, we…
Vapor growth of semiconductors is analyzed using recently obtained dependence of the adsorption energy on the electron charge transfer between the surface adsorbed species and the bulk [Krukowski et al. J. Appl. Phys. 114 (2013) 063507,…
The lack of p-type doping has impeded the development of vertical gallium oxide (Ga2O3) devices. Current blocking layers (CBL) using implanted deep acceptors has been used to demonstrate vertical devices. This paper presents the first…
We present a novel p-GaN gate HEMT structure with reduced hole concentration near the Schottky interface by doping engineering in MOCVD, which aims at lowering the electric field across the gate. By employing an additional unintentionally…
A new record-high room temperature electron Hall mobility (${\mu}_{RT} = 194\space cm^{2}/V\space s$ at $n\sim 8\times 10^{15}\space cm^{-3}$) for ${\beta}$-Ga2O3 is demonstrated in the unintentionally doped thin film grown on (010)…
Mn doped semiconductors are extremely interesting systems due to their novel magnetic properties suitable for the spintronics applications. It has been shown recently by both theory and experiment that Mn doped GaN systems have a very high…
For the development of reliable vertical GaN transistors, a detailed analysis of the robustness of the gate stack is necessary, as a function of the process parameters and material properties. To this aim, we report a detailed analysis of…
This work demonstrates the first nonpolar vertical GaN on GaN pn power diodes grown on m-plane free standing substrates by MOCVD. The SEM and HRXRD results showed the good crystal quality of the homoepitaxial nonpolar structure with low…
In this work, doping-defect interactions relevant to self-compensation in p-type GaN were investigated using atom probe tomography. The 3D visualization of ion distribution revealed the formation of spherical Mg-rich clusters and the…
We report on the impact of growth conditions on surface hillock density of N-polar GaN grown on nominally on-axis (0001) sapphire substrate by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). Large reduction in hillock density was achieved…