E Stern et al 2005 Nanotechnology 16 2941 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/16/12/037
E Stern1,7, G Cheng1,7, E Cimpoiasu2, R Klie5, S Guthrie4, J Klemic2, I Kretzschmar2, E Steinlauf3, D Turner-Evans2, E Broomfield2, J Hyland2, R Koudelka2, T Boone2, M Young2, A Sanders4, R Munden3, T Lee6, D Routenberg2 and M A Reed2,3,4
Show affiliationsIn this paper a statistically significant study of 1096 individual GaN nanowire (NW) devices is presented. We have correlated the effects of changing growth parameters for hot-wall chemically-vapour-deposited (HW-CVD) NWs fabricated via the vapour–liquid–solid mechanism. We first describe an optical lithographic method for creating Ohmic contacts to NW field effect transistors with both top and bottom electrostatic gates to characterize carrier density and mobility. Multiprobe measurements show that carrier modulation occurs in the channel and is not a contact effect. We then show that NW fabrication runs with nominally identical growth parameters yield similar electrical results across sample populations of >50 devices. By systematically altering the growth parameters we were able to decrease the average carrier concentration for these as-grown GaN NWs ~10-fold, from 2.29 × 1020 to 2.45 × 1019 cm−3, and successfully elucidate the parameters that exert the strongest influence on wire quality. Furthermore, this study shows that nitrogen vacancies, and not oxygen impurities, are the dominant intrinsic dopant in HW-CVD GaN NWs.
72.80.Ey III-V and II-VI semiconductors
72.20.-i Conductivity phenomena in semiconductors and insulators
Issue 12 (December 2005)
Received 3 August 2005, in final form 3 October 2005
Published 25 October 2005
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