Cubic ZnxMg1-xO and NixMg1-xO thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy for deep-UV optoelectronic applications
2010
Oxide based compounds have been of increasing interest for wide bandgap, deep ultraviolet optoelectronics. While high
Al content AlGaN has enabled many UV-DUV technologies, it suffers inherent drawbacks including difficulty achieving
increasing Al incorporation, high threading dislocation densities and challenges in bandgap engineering due to
polarization and piezoelectric effects. Here we present two wide bandgap cubic oxide compounds, ZnMgO and NiMgO,
that offer advantages over AlGaN for deep ultraviolet (DUV) applications. Ni x Mg 1-x O and Zn x Mg 1-x O are both direct
band gap, cubic rocksalt (B1) semiconductors with bandgaps in the UV-DUV spectral regions, offering alternatives
without the aforementioned drawbacks associated with AlGaN. Here we present Ni x Mg 1-x O and Zn x Mg 1-x O thin films
grown by plasma-assisted MBE on lattice matched MgO substrates as a novel means by which to realize DUV detection
devices. In both systems we have shown the films to exhibit abrupt, continuously tunable absorptions edges over their
respective bandgap ranges. Ni x Mg 1-x O films were varied compositionally from x=0 to 1, realizing bandgaps from 3.5 to
7.8 eV. Zn x Mg 1-x O films were similarly varied over the entire B1 range of the ternary (0
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