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A Study of Electrical Anisotropy of n-type a-plane GaN films grown on $\gamma$-plane Sapphire Substrates  

Kim, Jae-Bum (School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
Kim, Dong-Ho (School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
Hwang, Sung-Min (School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
Kim, Tae-Geun (Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
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Abstract
We report on the electrical properties of Ti/Al/Ni/Au (20 nm/ 150 nm/ 30 nm/ 100 nm) Ohmic contacts and the anisotropic conductivity of n-type ${\alpha}$-plane ([11-20]) GaN grown on $\gamma$-plane ([1-102]) sapphire substrates. The Ti/Al/Ni/Au Ohmic contacts and their sheet resistances are characterized by using the transfer length method (TLM) as a function of azimuthal angles. It is found that the specific contact resistance does not depend on the axis orientation and there are significant electrical anisotropy in ${\alpha}$-plane GaN films on $\gamma$-plane sapphire substrates, and the sheet resistance varies with azimuthal angles. The sheet resistance values in the direction parallel to m-axis [1-100] are 25% ~ 75% lower than those parallel to c-axis [0001] directions. Thus, Basal stacking faults (BSFs) are offered as a feasible source of the anisotropic mobility in defected m-axis direction because the band-edge discontinuities owing to the differential band gap structure.
Keywords
nonpolar ${\alpha}$-plane GaN; n-type GaN; Ohmic contact; transfer length method; basal stacking faults;
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