1. Acoustic and Optical Phonon Frequencies and Acoustic Phonon Velocities in Silicon-Doped Aluminum Nitride Thin Films
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Wright, Dylan, Mudiyanselage, Dinusha Herath, Guzman, Erick, Fu, Xuke, Teeter, Jordan, Da, Bingcheng, Kargar, Fariborz, Fu, Houqiang, and Balandin, Alexander A.
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics - Abstract
We report the results of the study of the acoustic and optical phonons in Si-doped AlN thin films grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on sapphire substrates. The Brillouin - Mandelstam and Raman light scattering spectroscopies were used to measure the acoustic and optical phonon frequencies close to the Brillouin zone center. The optical phonon frequencies reveal non-monotonic changes, reflective of the variations in the thin-film strain and dislocation densities with the addition of Si dopant atoms. The acoustic phonon velocity decreases monotonically with increasing Si dopant concentration, reducing by ~300 m/s at the doping level of 3 x 10^19 1/cm3. Knowledge of the acoustic phonon velocities can be used to optimize ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor heterostructures and minimize the thermal boundary resistance of high-power devices., Comment: 16 pages; 4 figures
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- 2024