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Growth And Characterization Of Wide Bandgap Quaternary Bemgzno Thin Films And Bemgzno/Zno Heterostructures, Mykyta Toporkov Jan 2016

Growth And Characterization Of Wide Bandgap Quaternary Bemgzno Thin Films And Bemgzno/Zno Heterostructures, Mykyta Toporkov

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This thesis reports a comprehensive study of quaternary BeMgZnO alloy and BeMgZnO/ZnO heterostructures for UV-optoelectronics electronic applications. It was shown that by tuning Be and Mg contents in the heterostructures, high carrier densities of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) are achievable and makes its use possible for high power RF applications. Additionally, optical bandgaps as high as 5.1 eV were achieved for single crystal wurtzite material which allows the use of the alloy for solar blind optoelectronics (Eg>4.5eV) or intersubband devices.

A systematic experimental and theoretical study of lattice parameters and bandgaps of quaternary BeMgZnO alloy was performed for …