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Infrared Reflectance Analysis of Epitaxial n-Type Doped GaN Layers Grown on Sapphire

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NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -

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SPRINGEROPEN
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2171-0

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Gallium nitride; Heterostructure; IR reflectance; Transfer matrix method; Carrier concentration; Mobility; Photo-etching; SIMS

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  1. NATO SfP Grant [984735]
  2. US National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro Thermal Systems (POETS) [EEC-1449548]

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Infrared (IR) reflectance spectroscopy is applied to study Si-doped multilayer n(+)/n(0)/n(+)-GaN structure grown on GaN buffer with GaN-template/sapphire substrate. Analysis of the investigated structure by photo-etching, SEM, and SIMS methods showed the existence of the additional layer with the drastic difference in Si and O doping levels and located between the epitaxial GaN buffer and template. Simulation of the experimental reflectivity spectra was performed in a wide frequency range. It is shown that the modeling of IR reflectance spectrum using 2 x 2 transfer matrix method and including into analysis the additional layer make it possible to obtain the best fitting of the experimental spectrum, which follows in the evaluation of GaN layer thicknesses which are in good agreement with the SEM and SIMS data. Spectral dependence of plasmon-LO-phonon coupled modes for each GaN layer is obtained from the spectral dependence of dielectric of Si doping impurity, which is attributed to compensation effects by the acceptor states.

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