Gallium oxide films deposition by RF magnetron sputtering; a detailed analysis on the effects of deposition pressure and sputtering power and annealing


Mobtakeri S., AKALTUN Y., ÖZER A., Kilic M., ŞENADIM TÜZEMEN E., GÜR E.

CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL, cilt.47, sa.2, ss.1721-1727, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 47 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.08.289
  • Dergi Adı: CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Communication Abstracts, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1721-1727
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Gallium oxide, Magnetron sputtering, Thin films, Annealing, Wide band gap semiconductors, OPTICAL-PROPERTIES
  • Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this study, gallium oxide (Ga2O3) thin films were deposited on sapphire and n-Si substrates using Ga2O3 target by radio frequency magnetron sputtering (RFMS) at substrate temperature of 300 degrees C at variable RF power and deposition pressure. The effects of deposition pressure and growth power on crystalline structure, morphology, transmittance, refractive index and band gap energy were investigated in detail. X-ray diffraction results showed that amorphous phase was observed in all the as-deposited thin films except for the thin films grown at low growth pressure. All the films showed conversion to poly-crystal beta-Ga2O3 phase after annealing process. When the deposition pressure increased from 7.5 mTorr to 12.20 mTorr, change in the 2D growth mode to 3D columnar growth mode was observed from the SEM images. Annealing clearly showed formation of larger grains for all the thin films. Lower transmission values were observed as the growth pressure increases. Annealing caused to obtain similar transmittance values for the thin films grown at different pressures. It was found that a red shift observed in the absorption edges and the energy band gap values decrease with increasing growth pressure. For as-deposited and annealing films, increasing sputtering power resulted in the increase refractive index.