Minority electron transport anisotropy in p-type AlxGa1-xN/GaN superlattices |
| |
Authors: | Chernyak L. Osinsky A. Fuflyigin V.N. Graff J.W. Schubert E.F. |
| |
Affiliation: | Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; |
| |
Abstract: | The minority electron diffusion length, L, in Mg-doped molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown p-type AlxGa1-xN/GaN superlattices with aluminum content x=0.1 and 0.2 was measured perpendicular and parallel to the superlattice planes by the electron beam induced current technique. A large anisotropy in the transport properties was observed with the effect varying from 1:3 to 1:6. We attribute an experimentally observed diffusion length anisotropy to minority electron scattering during transport across the potential barriers of the superlattice. Reference p-GaN samples were also investigated, and the diffusion length was observed to be isotropic in both MOCVD (L=0.5 μm) and MBE (L=0.27 μm) grown samples |
| |
Keywords: | |
|
|