Sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of Si-doped β-Ga2O3 semiconductor thin films

Yitian Bao; Xiaorui Wang; Shijie Xu

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/43/6/062802

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Sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ semiconductor thin films

Yitian Bao¹, Xiaorui Wang¹ and Shijie Xu^{1, 2,}

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Corresponding author: Shijie Xu, xusj@fudan.edu.cn; sjxu@hku.hk

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/43/6/062802

Abstract: In this article, we present a theoretical study on the sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films based on newly developed models. The measured sub-bandgap refractive indexes of β-Ga₂O₃ thin film are explained well with the new model, leading to the determination of an explicit analytical dispersion of refractive indexes for photon energy below an effective optical bandgap energy of 4.952 eV for the β-Ga₂O₃ thin film. Then, the oscillatory structures in long wavelength regions in experimental transmission spectra of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films with different Si doping concentrations are quantitively interpreted utilizing the determined sub-bandgap refractive index dispersion. Meanwhile, effective optical bandgap values of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films are further determined and are found to decrease with increasing the Si doping concentration as expectedly. In addition, the sub-bandgap absorption coefficients of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin film are calculated under the frame of the Franz–Keldysh mechanism due to the electric field effect of ionized Si impurities. The theoretical absorption coefficients agree with the available experimental data. These key parameters obtained in the present study may enrich the present understanding of the sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of impurity-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films.

Key words: gallium oxide, sub-bandgap refractive index, Si doping, effective optical bandgap, sub-bandgap absorption

References

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[2]	Mohamed H F, Xia C, Sai Q, et al. Growth and fundamentals of bulk β-Ga₂O₃ single crystals. J Semicond, 2019, 40, 011801 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/1/011801
[3]	Zhang F, Arita M, Wang X, et al. Toward controlling the carrier density of Si doped Ga₂O₃ films by pulsed laser deposition. Appl Phys Lett, 2016, 109, 102105 doi: 10.1063/1.4962463
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[6]	Yang J, Ahn S, Ren F, et al. High breakdown voltage (−201) β-Ga₂O₃ Schottky rectifiers. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 906 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2703609
[7]	Wang B, Xiao M, Yan X, et al. High-voltage vertical Ga₂O₃ power rectifiers operational at high temperatures up to 600 K. Appl Phys Lett, 2019, 115, 263503 doi: 10.1063/1.5132818
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[9]	Green A J, Chabak K D, Baldini M, et al. β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs for radio frequency operation. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 790 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2694805
[10]	Moser N, McCandless J, Crespo A, et al. Ge-doped β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 775 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2697359
[11]	Oh S, Kim C K, Kim J. High responsivity β-Ga₂O₃ metal–semiconductor–metal solar-blind photodetectors with ultraviolet transparent graphene electrodes. ACS Photon, 2018, 5, 1123 doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01486
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[23]	Yan J, Qu C. Electronic structure and optical properties of F-doped-Ga₂O₃ from first principles calculations. J Semicond, 2016, 37, 042002 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/4/042002
[24]	Mock A, Korlacki R, Briley C, et al. Band-to-band transitions, selection rules, effective mass, and excitonic contributions in monoclinic β-Ga₂O₃. Phys Rev B, 2017, 96, 245205 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.245205
[25]	Galazka Z. β-Ga₂O₃ for wide-bandgap electronics and optoelectronics. Semicond Sci Technol, 2018, 33, 113001 doi: 10.1088/1361-6641/aadf78
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[27]	Tharmalingam K. Optical absorption in the presence of a uniform field. Phys Rev, 1963, 130, 2204 doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.130.2204
[28]	Bao Y, Xu S. Dopant-induced electric fields and their influence on the band-edge absorption of GaN. ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 15401 doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b01394
[29]	Rafique S, Han L, Mou S, et al. Temperature and doping concentration dependence of the energy band gap in β-Ga₂O₃ thin films grown on sapphire. Opt Mater Express, 2017, 7, 3561 doi: 10.1364/OME.7.003561
[30]	Subrina R, Han L, Zhao H. Synthesis of wide bandgap Ga₂O₃ (E_g ~ 4.6–4.7 eV) thin films on sapphire by low pressure chemical vapor deposition. Phys Status Solidi A, 2016, 213, 1002 doi: 10.1002/pssa.201532711
[31]	Zhang J, Shi J, Qi D C, et al. Recent progress on the electronic structure, defect, and doping properties of Ga₂O₃. APL Mater, 2020, 8, 020906 doi: 10.1063/1.5142999
[32]	Peelaers H, Van de Walle C G. Sub-band-gap absorption in Ga₂O₃. Appl Phys Lett, 2017, 111, 182104 doi: 10.1063/1.5001323
[33]	Bechstedt F, Furthmüller J. Influence of screening dynamics on excitons in Ga₂O₃ polymorphs. Appl Phys Lett, 2019, 114, 122101 doi: 10.1063/1.5084324
[34]	Guo R, Su J, Yuan H, et al. Surface functionalization modulates the structural and optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional Ga₂O₃. Mater Today Phys, 2020, 12, 100192 doi: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2020.100192
[35]	Shi S L, Xu S J. Determination of effective mass of heavy hole from phonon-assisted excitonic luminescence spectra in ZnO. J Appl Phys, 2011, 109, 053510 doi: 10.1063/1.3549724
[36]	Wang X, Yu D, Xu S. Determination of absorption coefficients and Urbach tail depth of ZnO below the bandgap with two-photon photoluminescence. Opt Express, 2020, 28, 13817 doi: 10.1364/OE.391534
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Fig. 1. (Color online) The experimental (solid squares) and calculated (solid line) refractive indexes of β-Ga₂O₃ thin film as a function of photon energy. The experimental data were from Ref. [17], while the solid line was fitted with Eq. (1).

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Fig. 2. (Color online) The measured transmission spectra (solid squares) and corresponding fitting curves (red solid lines) of the β-Ga₂O₃ thin films. The experimental spectra were measured by Hu et al.^[4], while the fitting curves were obtained with Eq. (2) described in the text.

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Fig. 3. (Color online) Measured (open circles) and calculated (solid lines) sub-bandgap absorption coefficients of β-Ga₂O₃ thin film with an impurity density of 2.52 × 10²⁴ m^–3. Note that the plot is drawn in a semi-logarithmic scale. The original experimental data was from Ref. [29].

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Table 1. Determined effective optical bandgap values vs. flow rates of SiH_4.

Sample	a	b	c	d	e	f	g
Effective bandgap (eV)	4.952	4.923	4.920	4.918	4.865	4.823	4.770
Flow rates of SiH₄ (sccm)	0.00	0.02	0.04	0.08	0.12	0.16	0.20

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[1]	Pearton S J, Yang J, Cary IV P H, et al. A review of Ga₂O₃ materials, processing, and device. Appl Phys Rev, 2018, 5, 011301 doi: 10.1063/1.5006941
[2]	Mohamed H F, Xia C, Sai Q, et al. Growth and fundamentals of bulk β-Ga₂O₃ single crystals. J Semicond, 2019, 40, 011801 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/1/011801
[3]	Zhang F, Arita M, Wang X, et al. Toward controlling the carrier density of Si doped Ga₂O₃ films by pulsed laser deposition. Appl Phys Lett, 2016, 109, 102105 doi: 10.1063/1.4962463
[4]	Hu D, Wang Y, Zhuang S, et al. Surface morphology evolution and optoelectronic properties of heteroepitaxial Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. Ceram Internation, 2018, 44, 3122 doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2017.11.079
[5]	Pearton S J, Ren F, Tadjer M, et al. Perspective: Ga₂O₃ for ultra-high power rectifiers and MOSFETS. J Appl Phys, 2018, 124, 220901 doi: 10.1063/1.5062841
[6]	Yang J, Ahn S, Ren F, et al. High breakdown voltage (−201) β-Ga₂O₃ Schottky rectifiers. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 906 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2703609
[7]	Wang B, Xiao M, Yan X, et al. High-voltage vertical Ga₂O₃ power rectifiers operational at high temperatures up to 600 K. Appl Phys Lett, 2019, 115, 263503 doi: 10.1063/1.5132818
[8]	Chabak K D, McCandless J P, Moser N A, et al. Recessed-gate enhancement-mode β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2018, 39, 67 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2779867
[9]	Green A J, Chabak K D, Baldini M, et al. β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs for radio frequency operation. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 790 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2694805
[10]	Moser N, McCandless J, Crespo A, et al. Ge-doped β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 775 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2697359
[11]	Oh S, Kim C K, Kim J. High responsivity β-Ga₂O₃ metal–semiconductor–metal solar-blind photodetectors with ultraviolet transparent graphene electrodes. ACS Photon, 2018, 5, 1123 doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01486
[12]	Chen Y C, Lu Y J, Liu Q, et al. Ga₂O₃ photodetector arrays for solar-blind imaging. J Mater Chem C, 2019, 7, 2557 doi: 10.1039/C8TC05251D
[13]	Xu J, Zheng W, Huang F. Gallium oxide solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors: a review. J Mater Chem C, 2019, 7, 8753 doi: 10.1039/C9TC02055A
[14]	Liu Z, Wang X, Liu Y, et al. A high-performance ultraviolet solar-blind photodetector based on a β-Ga₂O₃ Schottky photodiode. J Mater Chem C, 2019, 7, 13920 doi: 10.1039/C9TC04912F
[15]	Zhang L, Xiu X, Li Y, et al. Solar-blind ultraviolet photodetector based on vertically aligned single-crystalline β-Ga₂O₃ nanowire arrays. Nanophotonics, 2020, 9, 0295 doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0336
[16]	Xie C, Lu X, Liang Y, et al. Patterned growth of β-Ga₂O₃ thin films for solar-blind deep-ultraviolet photodetectors array and optical imaging application. J Mater Sci Technol, 2021, 72, 189 doi: 10.1016/j.jmst.2020.09.015
[17]	Rebien M, Henrion W, Hong M, et al. Optical properties of gallium oxide thin films. Appl Phys Lett, 2002, 81, 250 doi: 10.1063/1.1491613
[18]	Bao Y, Xu S. Variable-period oscillations in optical spectra in sub-bandgap long wavelength region: Signatures of new dispersion of refractive index. J Phys D, 2021, 54, 155102 doi: 10.1088/1361-6463/abd6d4
[19]	Bhaumik I, Bhatt R, Ganesamoorthy S, et al. Temperature-dependent index of refraction of monoclinic Ga₂O₃ single crystal. Appl Opt, 2011, 50, 6006 doi: 10.1364/AO.50.006006
[20]	Ueda N, Hosono H, Waseda R, et al. Anisotropy of electrical and optical properties in β-Ga₂O₃ single crystals. Appl Phys Lett, 1997, 71, 933 doi: 10.1063/1.119693
[21]	Hilfiker M, Kilic U, Mock A, et al. Dielectric function tensor (1.5 eV to 9.0 eV), anisotropy, and band to band transitions of monoclinic β-(Al_xGa_{1– x})₂O₃ (x ≤ 0.21) films. Appl Phys Lett, 2019, 114, 231901 doi: 10.1063/1.5097780
[22]	Furthmüller J, Bechstedt F. Quasiparticle bands and spectra of Ga₂O₃ polymorphs. Phys Rev B, 2016, 93, 115204 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.115204
[23]	Yan J, Qu C. Electronic structure and optical properties of F-doped-Ga₂O₃ from first principles calculations. J Semicond, 2016, 37, 042002 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/4/042002
[24]	Mock A, Korlacki R, Briley C, et al. Band-to-band transitions, selection rules, effective mass, and excitonic contributions in monoclinic β-Ga₂O₃. Phys Rev B, 2017, 96, 245205 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.245205
[25]	Galazka Z. β-Ga₂O₃ for wide-bandgap electronics and optoelectronics. Semicond Sci Technol, 2018, 33, 113001 doi: 10.1088/1361-6641/aadf78
[26]	Redfield D. Effect of defect fields on the optical absorption edge. Phys Rev, 1963, 130, 916 doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.130.916
[27]	Tharmalingam K. Optical absorption in the presence of a uniform field. Phys Rev, 1963, 130, 2204 doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.130.2204
[28]	Bao Y, Xu S. Dopant-induced electric fields and their influence on the band-edge absorption of GaN. ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 15401 doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b01394
[29]	Rafique S, Han L, Mou S, et al. Temperature and doping concentration dependence of the energy band gap in β-Ga₂O₃ thin films grown on sapphire. Opt Mater Express, 2017, 7, 3561 doi: 10.1364/OME.7.003561
[30]	Subrina R, Han L, Zhao H. Synthesis of wide bandgap Ga₂O₃ (E_g ~ 4.6–4.7 eV) thin films on sapphire by low pressure chemical vapor deposition. Phys Status Solidi A, 2016, 213, 1002 doi: 10.1002/pssa.201532711
[31]	Zhang J, Shi J, Qi D C, et al. Recent progress on the electronic structure, defect, and doping properties of Ga₂O₃. APL Mater, 2020, 8, 020906 doi: 10.1063/1.5142999
[32]	Peelaers H, Van de Walle C G. Sub-band-gap absorption in Ga₂O₃. Appl Phys Lett, 2017, 111, 182104 doi: 10.1063/1.5001323
[33]	Bechstedt F, Furthmüller J. Influence of screening dynamics on excitons in Ga₂O₃ polymorphs. Appl Phys Lett, 2019, 114, 122101 doi: 10.1063/1.5084324
[34]	Guo R, Su J, Yuan H, et al. Surface functionalization modulates the structural and optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional Ga₂O₃. Mater Today Phys, 2020, 12, 100192 doi: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2020.100192
[35]	Shi S L, Xu S J. Determination of effective mass of heavy hole from phonon-assisted excitonic luminescence spectra in ZnO. J Appl Phys, 2011, 109, 053510 doi: 10.1063/1.3549724
[36]	Wang X, Yu D, Xu S. Determination of absorption coefficients and Urbach tail depth of ZnO below the bandgap with two-photon photoluminescence. Opt Express, 2020, 28, 13817 doi: 10.1364/OE.391534
[37]	Ye H G, Su Z C, Tang F, et al. Role of free electrons in phosphorescence in n-type wide bandgap semiconductors. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2017, 19, 30332 doi: 10.1039/C7CP05796B
[38]	Ye H, Su Z, Tang F, et al. Probing defects in ZnO by persistent phosphorescence. Opto-Electron Adv, 2018, 1, 180011 doi: 10.29026/oea.2018.180011

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Sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ semiconductor thin films

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/43/6/062802

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Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
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Department of Optical Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China

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Yitian Bao：got his PhD and MPhil degrees from the Department of Physics, the University of Hong Kong, and a BS degree from the Department of Math, Fudan University. His current research interests include deep learning, luminescence mechanism and material science
Xiaorui Wang：is a current postgraduate student at the Department of Physics, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his BSc and MEng degrees in 2014 and 2017 respectively at HIT. His current research interests include luminescent material science, and laser engineering and science
Shijie Xu：is a tenured professor in Department of Physics, the University of Hong Kong, and a distinguished professor in Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University. He earned his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1993. His current research interests include many-body quantum and localized-states ensemble (LSE) luminescence mechanisms in solids, especially in wide bandgap semiconductors and their nanostructures. He and his PhD students have developed LSE luminescence model which has been widely cited and recognized, including citations in the updated editions of two classic textbooks, Semiconductor Optics (C.F. Klingshirn, Springer) and The Physics of Semiconductors (M. Grundmann, Springer)
Corresponding author: xusj@fudan.edu.cn; sjxu@hku.hk
Received Date: 2021-12-01
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Available Online: 2022-04-11

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In this article, we present a theoretical study on the sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films based on newly developed models. The measured sub-bandgap refractive indexes of β-Ga₂O₃ thin film are explained well with the new model, leading to the determination of an explicit analytical dispersion of refractive indexes for photon energy below an effective optical bandgap energy of 4.952 eV for the β-Ga₂O₃ thin film. Then, the oscillatory structures in long wavelength regions in experimental transmission spectra of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films with different Si doping concentrations are quantitively interpreted utilizing the determined sub-bandgap refractive index dispersion. Meanwhile, effective optical bandgap values of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films are further determined and are found to decrease with increasing the Si doping concentration as expectedly. In addition, the sub-bandgap absorption coefficients of Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin film are calculated under the frame of the Franz–Keldysh mechanism due to the electric field effect of ionized Si impurities. The theoretical absorption coefficients agree with the available experimental data. These key parameters obtained in the present study may enrich the present understanding of the sub-bandgap refractive indexes and optical properties of impurity-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films.
- gallium oxide,
- sub-bandgap refractive index,
- Si doping,
- effective optical bandgap,
- sub-bandgap absorption

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[1]	Pearton S J, Yang J, Cary IV P H, et al. A review of Ga₂O₃ materials, processing, and device. Appl Phys Rev, 2018, 5, 011301 doi: 10.1063/1.5006941
[2]	Mohamed H F, Xia C, Sai Q, et al. Growth and fundamentals of bulk β-Ga₂O₃ single crystals. J Semicond, 2019, 40, 011801 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/1/011801
[3]	Zhang F, Arita M, Wang X, et al. Toward controlling the carrier density of Si doped Ga₂O₃ films by pulsed laser deposition. Appl Phys Lett, 2016, 109, 102105 doi: 10.1063/1.4962463
[4]	Hu D, Wang Y, Zhuang S, et al. Surface morphology evolution and optoelectronic properties of heteroepitaxial Si-doped β-Ga₂O₃ thin films grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. Ceram Internation, 2018, 44, 3122 doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2017.11.079
[5]	Pearton S J, Ren F, Tadjer M, et al. Perspective: Ga₂O₃ for ultra-high power rectifiers and MOSFETS. J Appl Phys, 2018, 124, 220901 doi: 10.1063/1.5062841
[6]	Yang J, Ahn S, Ren F, et al. High breakdown voltage (−201) β-Ga₂O₃ Schottky rectifiers. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 906 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2703609
[7]	Wang B, Xiao M, Yan X, et al. High-voltage vertical Ga₂O₃ power rectifiers operational at high temperatures up to 600 K. Appl Phys Lett, 2019, 115, 263503 doi: 10.1063/1.5132818
[8]	Chabak K D, McCandless J P, Moser N A, et al. Recessed-gate enhancement-mode β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2018, 39, 67 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2779867
[9]	Green A J, Chabak K D, Baldini M, et al. β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs for radio frequency operation. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 790 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2694805
[10]	Moser N, McCandless J, Crespo A, et al. Ge-doped β-Ga₂O₃ MOSFETs. IEEE Electron Device Lett, 2017, 38, 775 doi: 10.1109/LED.2017.2697359
[11]	Oh S, Kim C K, Kim J. High responsivity β-Ga₂O₃ metal–semiconductor–metal solar-blind photodetectors with ultraviolet transparent graphene electrodes. ACS Photon, 2018, 5, 1123 doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01486
[12]	Chen Y C, Lu Y J, Liu Q, et al. Ga₂O₃ photodetector arrays for solar-blind imaging. J Mater Chem C, 2019, 7, 2557 doi: 10.1039/C8TC05251D
[13]	Xu J, Zheng W, Huang F. Gallium oxide solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors: a review. J Mater Chem C, 2019, 7, 8753 doi: 10.1039/C9TC02055A
[14]	Liu Z, Wang X, Liu Y, et al. A high-performance ultraviolet solar-blind photodetector based on a β-Ga₂O₃ Schottky photodiode. J Mater Chem C, 2019, 7, 13920 doi: 10.1039/C9TC04912F
[15]	Zhang L, Xiu X, Li Y, et al. Solar-blind ultraviolet photodetector based on vertically aligned single-crystalline β-Ga₂O₃ nanowire arrays. Nanophotonics, 2020, 9, 0295 doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0336
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