Photoluminescence recovery by in-situ exposure of plasma-damaged n-GaN to atomic hydrogen at room temperature
Author(s) -
Shang Chen,
Yi Lu,
Ryosuke Kometani,
Kenji Ishikawa,
Hiroki Kondo,
Yutaka Tokuda,
Makoto Sekine,
Masaru Hori
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
aip advances
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 2158-3226
DOI - 10.1063/1.4729448
Subject(s) - photoluminescence , hydrogen , plasma , radical , irradiation , analytical chemistry (journal) , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , ion , in situ , chemistry , materials science , radiochemistry , atomic physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , optoelectronics , environmental chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , nuclear physics
The effect of in-situ exposure of n-GaN damaged by Cl2 plasma to atomic hydrogen (H radicals) at room temperature was investigated. We found that the PL intensities of the band-edge emission, which had been drastically reduced by plasma-beam irradiation at a Cl ion dose of 5 × 1016 cm−2, recovered to values close to those of as-grown samples after H radical exposure at a dose of 3.8 × 1017 cm−2. XPS revealed the appearance of a peak at a binding energy of 18.3 eV, which is tentatively assigned to Ga-H, and confirmed the removal of Cl after H radical exposure
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