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    Charge carrier density, mobility, and Seebeck coefficient of melt-grown bulk ZnGa2O4 single crystals
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2020) Boy, Johannes; Handwerg, Martin; Mitdank, Rüdiger; Galazka, Zbigniew; Fischer, Saskia F.
    The temperature dependence of the charge carrier density, mobility, and Seebeck coefficient of melt-grown, bulk ZnGa2O4 single crystals was measured between 10 K and 310 K. The electrical conductivity at room temperature is about σ = 286 S/cm due to a high electron concentration of n = 3.26 × 1019 cm−3 caused by unintentional doping. The mobility at room temperature is μ = 55 cm2/V s, whereas the scattering on ionized impurities limits the mobility to μ = 62 cm2/Vs for temperatures lower than 180 K. The Seebeck coefficient relative to aluminum at room temperature is SZnGa2O4−Al = (−125 ± 2) μV/K and shows a temperature dependence as expected for degenerate semiconductors. At low temperatures, around 60 K, we observed the maximum Seebeck coefficient due to the phonon drag effect. © 2020 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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    Bulk single crystals and physical properties of β-(AlxGa1-x)2O3(x = 0-0.35) grown by the Czochralski method
    (Melville, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2023) Galazka, Zbigniew; Fiedler, Andreas; Popp, Andreas; Ganschow, Steffen; Kwasniewski, Albert; Seyidov, Palvan; Pietsch, Mike; Dittmar, Andrea; Anooz, Saud Bin; Irmscher, Klaus; Suendermann, Manuela; Klimm, Detlef; Chou, Ta-Shun; Rehm, Jana; Schroeder, Thomas; Bickermann, Matthias
    We have systematically studied the growth, by the Czochralski method, and basic physical properties of a 2 cm and 2 in. diameter bulk β-(AlxGa1-x)2O3 single crystal with [Al] = 0-35 mol. % in the melt in 5 mol. % steps. The segregation coefficient of Al in the Ga2O3 melt of 1.1-1.2 results in a higher Al content in the crystals than in the melt. The crystals were also co-doped with Si or Mg. [Al] = 30 mol. % in the melt (33-36 mol. % in the crystals) seems to be a limit for obtaining bulk single crystals of high structural quality suitable for homoepitaxy. The crystals were either semiconducting (no intentional co-dopants with [Al] = 0-30 mol. % and Si-doped with [Al] = 15-20 mol. %), degenerately semiconducting (Si-doped with [Al] ≤ 15 mol. %), or semi-insulating ([Al] ≥ 25 mol. % and/or Mg-doped). The full width at half maximum of the rocking curve was 30-50 arcsec. The crystals showed a linear but anisotropic decrease in all lattice constants and a linear increase in the optical bandgap (5.6 eV for [Al] = 30 mol. %). The room temperature electron mobility at similar free electron concentrations gradually decreases with [Al], presumably due to enhanced scattering at phonons as the result of a larger lattice distortion. In Si co-doped crystals, the scattering is enhanced by ionized impurities. Measured electron mobilities and bandgaps enabled to estimate the Baliga figure of merit for electronic devices.
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    Terahertz transient stimulated emission from doped silicon
    (Melville, NY : AIP Publishing, 2020) Pavlov, S.G.; Deßmann, N.; Pohl, A.; Zhukavin, R.K.; Klaassen, T.O.; Abrosimov, N.V.; Riemann, H.; Redlich, B.; Van Der Meer, A.F.G.; Ortega, J.-M.; Prazeres, R.; Orlova, E.E.; Muraviev, A.V.; Shastin, V.N.; Hübers, H.-W.
    Transient-type stimulated emission in the terahertz (THz) frequency range has been achieved from phosphorus doped silicon crystals under optical excitation by a few-picosecond-long pulses generated by the infrared free electron lasers FELIX and CLIO. The analysis of the lasing threshold and emission spectra indicates that the stimulated emission occurs due to combined population inversion based lasing and stimulated Raman scattering. Giant gain has been obtained in the optically pumped silicon due to large THz cross sections of intracenter impurity transitions and resonant intracenter electronic scattering. The transient-type emission is formed under conditions when the pump pulse intervals exceed significantly the photon lifetime in the laser resonator. © 2020 Author(s).