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Gettering Effect in Cr/4H–SiC UV Photodetectors under Ptoton Irradiation with E = 15 MeV
The mechanism of structure transformation in Cr/4H–SiC UV photo detectors, which is responsi-ble for the cyclic gettering of radiation defects, under repeated proton irradiation, is proposed in this work.
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Templates for Homoepitaxial Growth of 3C-SiC Obtained by Direct Bonding of Silicon Carbide Wafers of Differing Polytype
An approach of direct bonding of SiC wafers of differing polytypes has been implemented in order to create a template for cubic 3C-SiC homo epitaxy. Hetero epitaxial 3C-SiC layers grown by chemical vapor depositi...
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Study of Heavily Doped n-3C-SiC Epitaxial Films Grown on 6H-SiC Semi-Insulating Substrates by Sublimation Method
Heavily doped 3C-SiC films based on semi-insulating 6H-SiC substrates were obtained by sublimation epitaxy. The structural perfection of the obtained samples was monitored by X-ray diffractometry. The measurement...
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Irradiation with Argon Ions of Cr/4H-SiC Photodetectors
The results of the effect of irradiation with Ar ions on the structural, electrophysical, and optical characteristics of ultraviolet Cr/4H-SiC photodetectors in the spectral range 200 to 400 nm are presented. Aft...
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Structural, Electrical, and Optical Properties of 4H–SiC for Ultraviolet Photodetectors
The results of investigations of initial n-4H–SiC structures by various methods are presented. The structures represent a highly doped n+ substrate with epitaxial layers 5 μm thick grown by chemical vapor deposit...
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Structural and Optical Characteristics of 4H-SiC UV Detectors Irradiated with Argon Ions
The results of a study into the effect of irradiation with heavy Ar ions on the structural and optical characteristics of 4H-SiC are presented. It is shown that even upon single-time irradiation with 53-MeV Ar io...
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Effect of Temperature on the Characteristics of 4H-SiC UV Photodetectors
The influence exerted by the carrier concentration in the range (1–50) × 1014 cm–3 in n-4H-SiC chemical-vapor deposited (CVD) epitaxial layers on the spectral characteristics of UV photodetectors with Cr Schottky...
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Proton Irradiation of 4H-SiC Photodetectors with Schottky Barriers
For the first time, comprehensive comparative investigations of ultraviolet photodetectors with Cr Schottky barriers formed on 4H-SiC epitaxial layers are carried out by the X-ray and optical methods before and a...
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A Study of the Influence Exerted by Structural Defects on Photoluminescence Spectra in n-3C-SiC
Photoluminescence (PL) spectra have been studied in 3C-SiC/4H-SiC heterostructures and 3C‑SiC single crystals. It was shown that epitaxial 3C-SiC layers grown on 4H-SiC substrates have a markedly poorer crystal p...
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Effects of irradiation with 8-MeV protons on n-3C-SiC heteroepitaxial layers
The effects of 8-MeV proton irradiation on n-3C-SiC epitaxial layers grown by sublimation on semi-insulating 4H-SiC substrates are studied. Changes in the sample parameters were recorded by the Hall-effect method...
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Chloride epitaxy of β-Ga2O3 layers grown on c-sapphire substrates
The method of chloride epitaxy is employed to grow β-Ga2O3 epitaxial layers on a c-sapphire substrate. Purified dry air is used as the source of oxygen. The layers are studied using the methods of X-ray diffracti...
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On a reduction in cracking upon the growth of AlN on Si substrates by hydride vapor-phase epitaxy
The main problem of the epitaxial growth of thick AlN layers on a Si substrate consists in the formation of cracks, which complicates the application of structures of this kind in the fabrication of semiconduc...
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Physical Properties of Bulk GaN Crystals Grown by HVPE
Free standing GaN platelets were fabricated by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). The platelets having a current maximum size of 7×6×0.1 mm3 were obtained by HVPE growth of ~100 µm thick GaN layers on SiC substr...
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GaN 20-mm Diameter Ingots Grown from Melt-Solution by Seeded Technique
In this paper, we describe the seeded growth of ∼20 mm diameter 15 mm long GaN ingots from the melt-solution. This is the first successful attempt to conduct growth of GaN boule-crystals. GaN ingots were grown...
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Investigation of the structure of (p)3C-SiC-(n)6H-SiC heterojunctions
The structure of (p)3C-SiC-(n)6H-SiC epitaxial structures obtained by sublimation epitaxy in vacuum on 6H-SiC substrates was studied by methods of X-ray topography, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron mi...
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GaN 20-mm Diameter Ingots Grown from Melt-Solution by Seeded Technique
In this paper, we describe the seeded growth of ∼20 mm diameter 15 mm long GaN ingots from the melt-solution. This is the first successful attempt to conduct growth of GaN boule-crystals. GaN ingots were grown...
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Electrical characteristics and structural properties of ohmic contacts to p-type 4H-SiC epitaxial layers
Epitaxial films grown by low-temperature liquid phase epitaxy on p-type 4H-SiC were used as strongly doped subcontact layers for making low-resistance contacts to the p-type material. The layers had a bulk resist...
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GaInAsSb/GaSb heterostructures grown in the spinodal decay region by liquid-phase epitaxy from Sb-enriched solution-melts
Nearly isoperiodic solitary Ga1−x InxAsySb1−y /GaSb heterostructures, in which the composition of the solid solution should be found inside the region of spinodal decay (x⩽0.4), were grown by liquid-phase epitaxy...
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Micropipe and dislocation density reduction in 6H-SiC and 4H-SiC structures grown by liquid phase epitaxy
We investigated silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial layers grown by liquid phase epitaxy (LPE). The layers were grown on 6H-SiC and 4H-SiC well-oriented (0001) 35 mm diameter commercial wafers as well as on 6H-SiC...
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GaN grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy on p-type 6H-SiC layers
6H-SiC/GaN pn-heterostructures were grown by subsequent epitaxial growth of p-SiC by low temperature liquid phase epitaxy (LTLPE) and n-GaN by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). For the first time, p-type epi...