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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 80, Issue 24, Pages 4564-4566Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1485309
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Detailed studies on the defect-related surface states of plasma-exposed n-GaN surfaces were carried out. An anomalous flat portion appeared in the metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitance-voltage characteristics for the sample exposed to H-2 plasma, corresponding to a localized peak at E-C-0.5 eV in the surface state density distribution. Atomic-force microscope and x-ray photoemission studies revealed the formation of Ga droplets on H-2-plasma-treated GaN surfaces, caused by the desorption of nitrogen atoms in the form of NHx. These results suggested that a nitrogen-vacancy-related state near the conduction-band edge was introduced on the H-2-plasma-treated GaN surface. No such effects took place on the N-2-plasma-treated GaN surfaces. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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