在(0001)面的蓝宝石衬底上用低压MOCVD法生长P型GaN外延层.对P型GaN薄膜用180keV的Mn^+离子注入进行磁性粒子掺杂,注入剂量保持为5.0×1015cm^-2,但注入时P型GaN分别处于室温、300℃和500℃.对注入的样品在N2气流中进行快速热退火处理,温度为850℃、时间为30s.用超导量子干涉仪(SQUID)对样品的磁性进行了分析,室温下注入样品的磁响应较弱,未发现铁磁性;在300℃下注入的样品中发现有较强的铁磁性,更高的500℃的注入温度并不能进一步增强铁磁性.结合用X射线衍射(XRD)对不同注入温度样品的结构研究,揭示只有适当的注入温度(300℃)才有利于GaN晶格的恢复和铁磁性的产生。
Wurtzite p-type GaN epilayer, which has a thickness of 0.5 μm, is prepared by MOCVD on GaN buffer with sapphire substrate. Magnetic doping of the p-type GaN epilayer is achieved by 180 keV Mn^+ ions implantation. The GaN films are all implanted with dose of 5 × 1015cm^-2, while are kept at different temperatures during the implantation, i.e. room temperature, 300℃ and 500℃, respectively. After an annealing step at 850℃for 30s in flowing N2, the magnetism of the Mn^+-implanted p-GaN films is investigated by superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). In the sample implanted at room temperature the magnetism is weak and no ferromagnetism is found. In the 300℃ implanted p-GaN film ferromagnetism is found with obvious hysteresis loop. Further increase of the implantation temperature to 500℃ brings about no increase in ferromagnetism. Combined with the structural characteristics of the Mn^+ implanted p-GaN films studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), one concludes that only suitable increase of the implantation temperature could be beneficial to the recovery of implantation defects and the generation of ferromagnetism in the Mn^+ implanted p-GaN films.