Transparency of semi-insulating, n-type, and p-type ammonothermal GaN substrates in the near-infrared, mid-infrared, and THz spectral range

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GaN substrates grown by the ammonothermal method are analyzed by Fast Fourier Transformation Spectroscopy in order to study the impact of doping (both n- and p-type) on their transparency in the near-infrared, mid-infrared, and terahertz spectral range. It is shown that the introduction of dopants causes a decrease in transparency of GaN substrates in a broad spectral range which is attributed to absorption on free carriers (n-type samples) or dopant ionization (p-type samples). In the mid-infrared the transparency cut-off, which for a semi-insulating GaN is at ~7 µm due to an absorption on a second harmonic of optical phonons, shifts towards shorter wavelengths due to an absorption on free carriers up to ~1 µm at n ~1020 cm−3 doping level. Moreover, a semi-insulating GaN crystal shows good transparency in the 1–10 THz range, while for n-and p-type crystal, the transparency in this spectral region is significantly quenched below 1%. In addition, it is shown that in the visible spectral region n-type GaN substrates with a carrier concentration below 1018 cm−3 are highly transparent with the absorption coefficient below 3 cm−1 at 450 nm, a satisfactory condition for light emitting diodes and laser diodes operating in this spectral range.

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Kucharski, R., Janicki, Ł., Zajac, M., Welna, M., Motyka, M., Skierbiszewski, C., & Kudrawiec, R. (2017). Transparency of semi-insulating, n-type, and p-type ammonothermal GaN substrates in the near-infrared, mid-infrared, and THz spectral range. Crystals, 7(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7070187

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