Formation of Extended Defects in 4H-SiC Epitaxial Growth

Annealing of multivacancy defects in 4H-SiC

The annealing behavior of defects observed in electron paramagnetic resonance EPR and photoluminescence PL is discussed. We consider the divacancy the P6/P7 EPR centers and a previously unreported EPR center that we suggest is a VC-VSi-VC trivacancy and their relationship with each other and with the UD1–3 series of PL lines near 1 eV. We observe that the divacancy and the UD2 PL lines annealin...

Reduction of structural defects in thick 4H-SiC epitaxial layers grown on 4° off-axis substrates

Effect of Low Pressure on Surface Roughness and Morphological Defects of 4H-SiC Epitaxial Layers

In this work, 4H-SiC epilayers are performed on 4° off-axis substrates under low pressure condition by horizontal hot wall chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) with a standard chemistry of silane-propane-hydrogen, which focuses on the effects of growth pressure on morphology, basal plane dislocations (BPDs) and crystalline quality. It is found that morphological defects reduce with the decreasing ...

Solubility limit and precipitate formation in Al-doped 4H-SiC epitaxial material

Heavily Al-doped 4H–SiC structures have been prepared by vapor phase epitaxy. Subsequent anneals have been carried out in an Ar atmosphere in a rf-heated furnace between 1500 °C and 2000 °C for 0.5 to 3 h. Secondary ion mass spectrometry has been utilized to obtain Al concentration versus depth as well as lateral distributions ~ion images!. Transmission electron microscopy ~TEM! has been employ...

High Electron Mobility in Epitaxial Graphene on 4H-SiC(0001) via post-growth annealing under hydrogen

We investigate the magneto-transport properties of epitaxial graphene single-layer on 4H-SiC(0001), grown by atmospheric pressure graphitization in Ar, followed by H2 intercalation. We directly demonstrate the importance of saturating the Si dangling bonds at the graphene/SiC(0001) interface to achieve high carrier mobility. Upon successful Si dangling bonds elimination, carrier mobility increa...