Formation and annealing of dislocation loops induced by nitrogen implantation of ZnO

Details Formation and annealing of dislocation loops induced by nitrogen implantation of ZnO Formation and annealing of dislocation loops induced by nitrogen implantation of ZnO

2011-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/1106.4383v1

Journal of Applied Physics 109, 2 (2011) 023513

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3537917

Although zinc oxide is a promising material for the fabrication of short wavelength optoelectronic devices, p-type doping is a step that remains challenging for the realization of diodes. Out of equilibrium methods such as ion implantation are expected to dope ZnO successfully provided that the non-radiative defects introduced by implantation can be annealed out. In this study, ZnO substrates are implanted with nitrogen ions, and the extended defects induced by implantation are studied by transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD), before and after annealing at 900^{\circ}C. Before annealing, these defects are identified to be dislocation loops lying either in basal planes in high N concentration regions, or in prismatic planes in low N concentration regions, together with linear dislocations. An uniaxial deformation of 0.4% along the c axis, caused by the predominant basal loops, is measured by XRD in the implanted layer. After annealing, prismatic loops disappear while the density of basal loops decreases and their diameter increases. Moreover, dislocation loops disappear completely from the sub-surface region. XRD measurements show a residual deformation of only 0.05% in the implanted and annealed layer. The fact that basal loops are favoured against prismatic ones at high N concentration or high temperature is attributed to a lower stacking fault energy in these conditions. The coalescence of loops and their disappearance in the sub-surface region are ascribed to point defect diffusion. Finally, the electrical and optical properties of nitrogen-implanted ZnO are correlated with the observed structural features.

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