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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.045205
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We have applied a low-energy positron beam and secondary ion mass spectrometry to study defects in homoepitaxial and heteroepitaxial GaN layers. Positron experiments reveal high concentrations of Ga vacancies in nominally undoped n-type GaN, where the conductivity is due to unintentional oxygen incorporation. Ga vacancies are observed in both homoepitaxial and heteroepitaxial layers, indicating that their formation is independent of the dislocation density. No Ga vacancies are detected in p-type or semi-insulating samples doped with Mg, as predicted by the theoretical formation energies. In samples where n-type conductivity is due to Si doping and the incorporation of oxygen impurities is suppressed, the concentration of Ga vacancies is much lower than in n-type samples containing oxygen. This indicates that the presence of oxygen donor in GaN promotes the formation of Ga vacancy. We suggest that this effect is due to the creation of V-Ga-O-N complexes during the epitaxial growth.
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