Trans Tech Publications, Materials Science Forum, (679-680), p. 157-160, 2011
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.679-680.157
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The electrical and optical techniques have been applied for investigation of carrier transport and recombination features in thick free-standing 3C-SiC layers. Temperature dependencies of Hall mobility, magneto-resistivity, and conductivity indicated presence of high potential barriers, up to 0.4 eV. The carrier mobilities and equilibrium densities were calculated in the barrier and inter-barrier regions. Contactless measurements of the excess carrier ambipolar mobility and lifetime at 1016-18 cm-3 injection levels revealed carrier scattering solely by phonons in 80 – 800 K range. A correlation between the temperature dependencies of carrier lifetime and ambipolar mobility pointed out that diffusion-limited surface recombination at extended defects contributes significantly to the carrier lifetime.