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Inhibition of unintentional extra carriers by Mn valence change for high insulating devices

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep24190

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51572033, 61274017, 51572241, 11404029]
  2. Beijing Natural Science Foundation [2154055]
  3. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) Excellent Ph.D. Students Foundation [CX2015304]
  4. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2014RC0906]

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For intrinsic oxide semiconductors, oxygen vacancies served as the electron donors have long been, and inevitably still are, attributed as the primary cause of conductivity, making oxide semiconductors seem hard to act as high insulating materials. Meanwhile, the presence of oxygen vacancies often leads to a persistent photoconductivity phenomenon which is not conducive to the practical use in the fast photoelectric response devices. Herein, we propose a possible way to reduce the influence of oxygen vacancies by introducing a valence change doping in the monoclinic beta-Ga2O3 epitaxial thin film. The unintentional extra electrons induced by oxygen vacancies can be strongly suppressed by the change valence of the doped Mn ions from +3 to +2. The resistance for the Mn-doped Ga2O3 increases two orders of magnitude in compared with the pure Ga2O3. As a result, photodetector based on Mn-doped Ga2O3 thin films takes on a lower dark current, a higher sensitivity, and a faster photoresponse time, exhibiting a promising candidate using in high performance solar-blind photodetector. The study presents that the intentional doping of Mn may provide a convenient and reliable method of obtaining high insulating thin film in oxide semiconductor for the application of specific device.

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