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was also been discussed. (1) The crystal quality and the
thickness of films deposited at 600 oC increase with the
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increasing of oxygen pressure. The growth mode of the
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films is island mode. (2) By varying the substrate
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temperature, the evolutions of the structure, surface
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morphology and bandgap have been clearly clarified.
Growth and characterization of Ga2O3 based wide
Films deposited at substrate temperature below 400 oC
bandgap semiconductor films
show amorphous structure while those deposited at
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substrate temperature higher than 500 oC are of high
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oriented monoclinic structure. (3) The optimized growth
substrate temperature and oxygen pressure for our
experiment is 500 oC and 0.1 Pa. The growth relationship
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between the film and the substrate is: sapphire (0001) //
become the hot spot of recent research for the possible
β-Ga2O3 (-201) and sapphire [11-20] // β-Ga2O3 [102].
using in many fields such as light emitting devices,
The obtained β-Ga2O3 film is of sixfold in-plane
power devices and flame detectors. Among all the wide
rotational symmetry. The hard X-ray photoemission
bandgap materials, β-Ga2O3 film with the monoclinic
spectroscopy reveals that the valence band of the
structure is considered as a promising candidate for its
crystalline films is mainly due to the hybridization of Ga
large bandgap and chemical and physical stabilities. And
4sp. (4) By varying the growth time (film thickness), the
it is also suitable for extreme environment applications
growth process has been investigated. (5) Post annealing
such as high temperatures, intense radiation and
(annealing temperature from 700 to 900 oC) cannot be
corrosive environments. However, the bandgap should
used to obtain films with better crystal quality than the
be tuned to realize high sensitive wavelength tunable
film deposited under the optimized growth conditions.
photodetectors, cutoff wavelength-tunable optical filters
The films with post annealing show smaller blue/UV
or to introduce shallow impurity levels for good
emission ratio.
Wide bandgap
semiconductor
materials
electronic properties.
In Chapter 4, we have investigated the Si doping
In Chapter 1, the background including the
influence on the structure and properties of Ga2O3 films.
properties and the review of studies on Ga2O3,
(1) Ga2O3 films with different Si content were grown on
(Ga1-xInx)2O3, (AlxGa1-x)2O3 and Si doped Ga2O3 were
sapphire substrate at 500 oC by PLD. All of the films
described. The purpose or the motivation of this study
exhibit smooth surfaces and high transmittances. The
was presented.
films of Si content lower than 4.1 at. % show high (-201)
In Chapter 2, the film growth and characterization
methods were introduced.
oriented monoclinic structure. The carrier density of
Ga2O3 film has been increased to 9.1×1019 cm-3 with
In Chapter 3, we have investigated the influences of
conductivity of 2.0 S cm-1 by 1.1 at. % Si doping. Further
oxygen pressure, substrate temperature and deposition
increase of Si content leads to the decrease of carrier
time on the structure and optical properties of Ga2O3
density. (2) By varing the substrate temperature, it is
films grown by PLD. The influence of post annealing
found that film deposited at 500 oC (1 wt.% Si doped)
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under different gas ambients (N2, vacuum, Ar, O2) or at
different temperatures (700~1000 oC). It is found that gas
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ambient and temperature have important influence on
crystal quality of annealed (GaIn)2O3 films. Only oxygen
ambient can crystallize (GaIn)2O3 film and film annealed
in
shows lowest conductivity and highest carrier density
while possesses best crystallinity. (3) Oxygen pressure
has no obviously influence on the electrical properties of
Si-doped Ga2O3, indicating the oxygen deficiency is not
the main origin of the conductive carrier in our study.
In Chapter 5, we showed the growth of crystalline
and bandgap tunable (Ga1-xInx)2O3 films on sapphire
(0001) substrate. The elimination of the phase separation
was discussed in detail. (1) Optical analysis indicates that
the bandgap of the (GaIn)2O3 films grown by PLD can
be tailored from 3.8 eV to 5.1 eV by controlling the In
content. Single phase (GaIn)2O3 films were obtained
although films with nominal In content between 0.2 and
0.5 exhibit phases separation. (2) (GaIn)2O3 films with
nominal In content of 0.3 were deposited on sapphire
substrate by PLD at substrate temperatures from RT to
500 oC. The phase separation were observed for the films
grown at substrate temperature higher than 300 oC while
the films grown at substrate temperature lower than 200
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C revealed homogenous element distributions with
amorphous structures. Thermal annealing had no obvious
effects on films grown at substrate temperature higher
than 300 oC. The clusters remained on the surface of the
films after thermal annealing treatment. On the other
hand, however, by thermal annealing the film deposited
at RT in atmosphere, (GaIn)2O3 film with smooth surface,
homogenous element distribution, high orientation
crystal and high optical transmittance was successfully
obtained. (3) In order to understand the annealing effects,
(GaIn)2O3 films with nominal In content of 0.3
as-deposited in room temperature have been annealed
800
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best
crystal
quality.
X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy analysis indicated that
oxygen ambient annealing has greatly helped on
decreasing the oxygen vacancy. (4) (GaIn)2O3 films with
different nominal In contents from 0.2 to 0.7 annealed at
800 oC under O2 ambient also showed high crystal
quality, improved optical transmittance, and smooth
surface. Thus, high oriented films with nominal In
content from 0.2 to 0.7 without phase separation can be
obtained through annealing process. Complementally,
high oriented films without phase separation can be
obtained in the nominal indium content regions of 0 to
0.1 and 0.9 to 1.0 for the film deposited at 500 oC. By
combing the two processes, bandgap tunable high quality
(GaIn)2O3 films throughout the whole indium content
range from 0 to 1 can be successfully obtained.
In Chapter 6, bandgap tunable (AlGa)2O3 films
were deposited on sapphire substrates by PLD. The
deposited films are of high transmittance as measured by
spectrophotometer. The Al contents in films increase
linearly with that of the targets. The measurement of
bandgap energies by examining the onset of inelastic
energy loss in core-level atomic spectra using X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy is proved to be valid for
determining the bandgap of (AlGa)2O3 films as it is in
good agreement with the bandgap values from
transmittance spectra. The measured bandgap of
(AlGa)2O3 films increases continuously with the Al
content covering the whole Al content range from about
5 to 7 eV, indicating PLD is a promising growth
technology for growing bandgap tunable (AlGa)2O3 film.