Effect of growth pressure on the characteristics of β-Ga2O3 films grown on GaAs (1 0 0) substrates by MOCVD method

Abstract

The β-Ga2O3 films were grown on GaAs (100) substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition method. The influences of growth pressure on the surface morphology, crystal quality and electrical properties of β-Ga2O3 films were investigated using FE-SEM, XRD and leakage current measurements. It was found that the growth pressure could obviously influence the preferred orientation and growth rate of the β-Ga2O3 films prepared from 2000Pa to 10,000Pa. At the growth pressure of 5000Pa, we obtained β-Ga2O3 film with relatively high resistance. According to the XRD phi-scan results, the in-plane epitaxial relationship could be confirmed as β-Ga2O3 [010]||GaAs 〈011〉 and β-Ga2O3 [001]||GaAs 〈011〉. In addition, the effect of growth pressure on the parasitic gas-phase reaction was studied to explain the changes of growth rate.