Influence of heat treatments in H 2 and Ar on the E 1center in β -Ga2O3

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The influence of heat treating n-type bulk β-Ga 2O 3 in hydrogen (H 2) and argon (Ar) gases on the presence of the defect level commonly labeled as E 1 was studied. Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy confirms that hydrogen (H) is incorporated into β-Ga 2O 3 during H 2 annealing at 900 °C. Deep-level transient spectroscopy measurements reveal that the concentration of the E 1 level is promoted by the introduction of H, in contrast to what is observed in samples heat-treated in an Ar flow. We further find the E 1 level to be stable against heat treatments at 650 K, both with and without an applied reverse-bias voltage. Potential candidates for the defect origin of E 1 are investigated using hybrid-functional calculations, and three types of defect complexes involving H are found to exhibit charge-state transition levels compatible with E 1, including substitutional H at one of the threefold coordinated O sites, Ga-substitutional shallow donor impurities passivated by H, and certain configurations of singly hydrogenated Ga-O divacancies. Among these types, only the latter exhibit H binding energies that are consistent with the observed thermal stability of E 1.

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Langørgen, A., Zimmermann, C., Kalmann Frodason, Y., Førdestrøm Verhoeven, E., Michael Weiser, P., Michael Karsthof, R., … Vines, L. (2022). Influence of heat treatments in H 2 and Ar on the E 1center in β -Ga2O3. Journal of Applied Physics, 131(11). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0083861

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