Deep-ultraviolet transparent conducting SrSnO3 via heterostructure design

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Fengdeng, Yang, Zhifei, Abramovitch, David, Guo, Silu, Mkhoyan, K. Andre, Bernardi, Marco, Jalan, Bharat
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author Liu, Fengdeng
Yang, Zhifei
Abramovitch, David
Guo, Silu
Mkhoyan, K. Andre
Bernardi, Marco
Jalan, Bharat
author_facet Liu, Fengdeng
Yang, Zhifei
Abramovitch, David
Guo, Silu
Mkhoyan, K. Andre
Bernardi, Marco
Jalan, Bharat
contents Exploration and advancements in ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors are pivotal for next-generation high-power electronics and deep-ultraviolet (DUV) optoelectronics. A critical challenge lies in finding a semiconductor that is highly transparent to DUV wavelengths yet conductive with high mobility at room temperature. Here, we achieved both high transparency and high conductivity by employing a thin heterostructure design. The heterostructure facilitated high conductivity by screening phonons using free carriers, while the atomically thin films ensured high transparency. We utilized a heterostructure comprising SrSnO3/La:SrSnO3/GdScO3 (110) and applied electrostatic gating to effectively separate electrons from their dopant atoms. This led to a modulation of carrier density from 1018 cm-3 to 1020 cm-3, with room temperature mobilities ranging from 40 to 140 cm2V-1s-1. The phonon-limited mobility, calculated from first principles, closely matched experimental results, suggesting that room-temperature mobility could be further increased with higher electron density. Additionally, the sample exhibited 85% optical transparency at a 300 nm wavelength. These findings highlight the potential of heterostructure design for transparent UWBG semiconductor applications, especially in deep-ultraviolet regime.
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spellingShingle Deep-ultraviolet transparent conducting SrSnO3 via heterostructure design
Liu, Fengdeng
Yang, Zhifei
Abramovitch, David
Guo, Silu
Mkhoyan, K. Andre
Bernardi, Marco
Jalan, Bharat
Materials Science
Exploration and advancements in ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors are pivotal for next-generation high-power electronics and deep-ultraviolet (DUV) optoelectronics. A critical challenge lies in finding a semiconductor that is highly transparent to DUV wavelengths yet conductive with high mobility at room temperature. Here, we achieved both high transparency and high conductivity by employing a thin heterostructure design. The heterostructure facilitated high conductivity by screening phonons using free carriers, while the atomically thin films ensured high transparency. We utilized a heterostructure comprising SrSnO3/La:SrSnO3/GdScO3 (110) and applied electrostatic gating to effectively separate electrons from their dopant atoms. This led to a modulation of carrier density from 1018 cm-3 to 1020 cm-3, with room temperature mobilities ranging from 40 to 140 cm2V-1s-1. The phonon-limited mobility, calculated from first principles, closely matched experimental results, suggesting that room-temperature mobility could be further increased with higher electron density. Additionally, the sample exhibited 85% optical transparency at a 300 nm wavelength. These findings highlight the potential of heterostructure design for transparent UWBG semiconductor applications, especially in deep-ultraviolet regime.
title Deep-ultraviolet transparent conducting SrSnO3 via heterostructure design
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08915