Journal of Synthetic Crystals, Volume. 50, Issue 12, 2219(2021)

β-Ga2O3 Films Growth on SiC Substrate and p-SiC/n-β-Ga2O3 Heterojunction Photovoltaic Properties

LUO Jianren*, WANG Xianghu, FAN Tianyao, JIN Jiani, and ZHANG Rulin
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    In this paper, β-Ga2O3 films grown preferentially along (403) were prepared on p-type 4H-SiC substrate by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The results show that the growth temperature has an important influence on the morphology, structure, composition and growth mechanism of β-Ga2O3 film. When the growth temperature increases from 300 ℃ to 500 ℃, the crystalline quality of the β-Ga2O3 film raises with the increasing temperature, but when the temperature further increases to 600 ℃, the crystalline quality of the thin film becomes worse. It was tried to explain that the kinetic energy of atoms deposited on the substrate increases with the increase of growth temperature below 500 ℃, leading to easier migration of atoms, finally, the film is grown in two-dimensional mode and has smaller roughness as measured by AFM. However, when the temperature further increases to 600 ℃, the two-dimensional growth mode is changed to three-dimensional island shape, because of the difference in thermal expansion coefficient between 4H-SiC substrate and β-Ga2O3 thin film, resulted in the larger roughness. The photovoltaic conversion efficiency of heterojunction solar cell based on p-4H-SiC/n-β-Ga2O3 reaches 3.43% under standard test conditions.

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    LUO Jianren, WANG Xianghu, FAN Tianyao, JIN Jiani, ZHANG Rulin. β-Ga2O3 Films Growth on SiC Substrate and p-SiC/n-β-Ga2O3 Heterojunction Photovoltaic Properties[J]. Journal of Synthetic Crystals, 2021, 50(12): 2219

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    Received: Sep. 4, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 15, 2022

    The Author Email: LUO Jianren (1667086257@qq.com)

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    CSTR:32186.14.

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