Highly conductive epitaxial ZnO layers deposited by atomic layer deposition

Abstract The possibility of depositing conductive epitaxial layers with atomic layer deposition has been examined. Epitaxial ZnO layers were grown on GaN and doped with Al. The resistivity of the epitaxial layers is between 0.6 and 2 * 10  −4 Ω cm with both the mobilities and the carrier concentrations being very high. The source of the high carrier concentration was found to be a combination of Al and Ga doping, the latter resulted by Ga atoms diffusing into the ZnO from the GaN substrate.