Akinori Koukitu

Electronic properties of the residual donor in unintentionally doped .BETA.-Ga2O3

Electron paramagnetic resonance was used to study the donor that is responsible for the n-type conductivity in unintentionally doped (UID) β-Ga2O3 substrates. We show that in as-grown materials, the donor requires high temperature annealing to be activated. In partly activated materials with the donor concentration in the 1016u2009cm−3 range or lower, the donor is found to behave as a negative-U center (often called a DX center) with the negative charge state DX− lying ∼16–20u2009meV below the neutral charge state d0 (or Ed), which is estimated to be ∼28–29u2009meV below the conduction band minimum. This corresponds to a donor activation energy of Ea∼44–49u2009meV. In fully activated materials with the donor spin density close to ∼1u2009×u20091018u2009cm−3, donor electrons become delocalized, leading to the formation of impurity bands, which reduces the donor activation energy to Ea∼15–17u2009meV. The results clarify the electronic structure of the dominant donor in UID β-Ga2O3 and explain the large variation in the previously reported ...

Current Status of Gallium Oxide-Based Power Device Technology

Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) possesses excellent material properties especially for power device applications. It is also attractive from an industrial viewpoint since large-size, high-quality wafers can be manufactured by using simple methods. These two features have drawn much attention to Ga2O3 as a new wide bandgap semiconductor following SiC and GaN. In this report, we describe the recent progress in development on fundamental technologies for Ga2O3 devices, covering wafer production from melt-grown bulk single crystals, homoepitaxial thin-film growth by halide vapor phase epitaxy, as well as device processing and characterization of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and Schottky barrier diodes.