Abstract
N-type 4H-SiC crystals were grown by the physical vapor transport (PVT) method with nitrogen and aluminum (N–Al) co-doping. By using aluminum carbide powder preannealed in nitrogen gas atmosphere as an aluminum doping source, we obtained highly N–Al co-doped crystals with a nitrogen concentration higher than that in nitrogen-only-doped crystals. The dislocation densities of N-Al co-doped crystals with a high aluminum concentration (>1 × 1019 cm−3) were found to become higher than those with a low aluminum concentration (<1 × 1019 cm−3). Moreover, we investigated the expansion velocities of double Shockley-type stacking faults (DSFs) in the N–Al co-doped and the nitrogen-only-doped crystals. We found that the DSF expansion velocities in the N–Al co-doped crystals were lower than those in the nitrogen-only-doped crystals. This difference in the DSF expansion velocity is discussed with respect to the quantum well action model.
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