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Effect of induced defects on conduction mechanisms of noble-gas-implanted ScN thin films

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Noble-gas implantation was used to introduce defects in n-type degenerate ScN thin films to tailor their transport properties. The electrical resistivity increased significantly with the damage levels created, while the electron mobility decreased regardless of the nature of the ion implanted and their doses. However, the transport property characterizations showed that two types of defects were formed during implantation, named point-like and complex-like defects depending on their temperature stability. The point-like defects changed the electrical conduction mode from metallic-like to semiconducting behavior. In the low temperature range, where both groups of defects were present, the dominant operative conduction mechanism was the variable range hopping conduction mode. Beyond a temperature of about 400 K, the point-like defects started to recover with an activation energy of 90 meV resulting in a decrease in resistivity, independent of the incident ion. The complex-like defects were, therefore, the only remaining group of defects after annealing above 700 K. These latter, thermally stable at least up to 750 K, introduced deep acceptor levels in the bandgap resulting in an increase in the electrical resistivity with higher carrier scattering while keeping the metallic-like behavior of the sample. The generation of both types of defects, as determined by resistivity measurements, appeared to occur through a similar mechanism within a single collision cascade.
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hal-04521176 , version 1 (26-03-2024)

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Razvan Burcea, Hugo Bouteiller, Simon Hurand, Per Eklund, Jean-François Barbot, et al.. Effect of induced defects on conduction mechanisms of noble-gas-implanted ScN thin films. Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, 134 (5), pp.055107. ⟨10.1063/5.0137428⟩. ⟨hal-04521176⟩
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