Hopping conduction range of heavily Al-doped 4H-SiC thick epilayers grown by CVD

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作者
Ji, Shiyang [1 ]
Eto, Kazuma [1 ]
Yoshida, Sadafumi [1 ]
Kojima, Kazutoshi [1 ]
Ishida, Yuuki [1 ]
Saito, Shingo [1 ]
Tsuchida, Hidekazu [2 ]
Okumura, Hajime [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Inst Adv Ind Sci & Technol, Adv Power Elect Res Ctr, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058568, Japan
[2] Cent Res Inst Elect Power Ind, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 2400196, Japan
基金
日本学术振兴会;
关键词
IMPURITY CONDUCTION; LOW-RESISTIVITY; ALUMINUM; BORON; 6H; TEMPERATURE; DEPENDENCE; ACTIVATION; TRANSPORT; 4H;
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10.7567/APEX.8.121302
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
To outline the hopping conduction range, the electrical characteristics of CVD-grown heavily Al-doped 4H-SiC thick epilayers (2.0 x 10(19)-4.0 x 10(20) cm(-3)) were investigated in a wide temperature regime (20-900 K). It is found that, below 100 K, hopping conduction dominates the carrier transport for all epilayers, and the corresponding hopping conduction activation energy shows a maximum of similar to 30 meV at around 1.1 x 10(20) cm(-3). With increasing doping level, the temperature dependence of resistivity evolves and finally obeys the similar to 1/T-1/4 law in the entire temperature regime, which gives direct evidence of variable-range hopping conduction. (C) 2015 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
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