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Evolution of the below-bandgap anisotropic refractive indices and dielectric functions of β-(AlxGa1− x)2O3 (0 < x < 0.25) determined by generalized spectroscopic ellipsometry

Sorensen, Preston ; Mock, Alyssa ; Stokey, Megan ; Kilic, Ufuk ; Mauze, Akhil ; Zhang, Yuewei ; Speck, James ; Galazka, Zbigniew ; Darakchieva, Vanya LU and Schubert, Mathias LU orcid (2026) In Applied Physics Letters 128(12).
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We determine the composition dependence of the below-bandgap anisotropic refractive indices and dielectric functions of β-(AlxGa1−x )2O3 for x up to 25% Al. We use Mueller matrix generalized spectroscopic ellipsometry and investigate a set of high quality single crystalline bulk (x = 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, 15 %, 20 %, 25 %) and thin film (4.6%, 9.7%, 12%, 15%, 16.3%, 21%) samples grown by the Czochralski method and by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, respectively. Bulk samples with 0.2% silicon doping are cut from ingots with (100) surface and the unintentionally doped thin films samples are grown pseudomorphically on (010) β-Ga2O3. The combination of ellipsometry data... (More)

We determine the composition dependence of the below-bandgap anisotropic refractive indices and dielectric functions of β-(AlxGa1−x )2O3 for x up to 25% Al. We use Mueller matrix generalized spectroscopic ellipsometry and investigate a set of high quality single crystalline bulk (x = 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, 15 %, 20 %, 25 %) and thin film (4.6%, 9.7%, 12%, 15%, 16.3%, 21%) samples grown by the Czochralski method and by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, respectively. Bulk samples with 0.2% silicon doping are cut from ingots with (100) surface and the unintentionally doped thin films samples are grown pseudomorphically on (010) β-Ga2O3. The combination of ellipsometry data from both sample sets permits to fully determine the optical properties of the transparent alloys. We employ a quasi-orthorhombic approach which ignores the very small shear components induced by the monoclinic crystal structure. We also ignore the possibly small effects due to strain within the pseudomorphically grown epitaxial samples. We report indices and dielectric functions for polarization along lattice vectors a, b, and reciprocal lattice vector c ⋆. All indices reduce with increasing incorporation of aluminum while the spectral range of transparency increases due to the increase in bandgap energy with composition. We use our results to predict Bragg reflector multilayer structures on b-plane β-(Al0.20Ga0.80)2O3, for use in polarization sensitive narrow-band optical filters in the short wavelength region.

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10.1063/5.0320403
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  author       = {{Sorensen, Preston and Mock, Alyssa and Stokey, Megan and Kilic, Ufuk and Mauze, Akhil and Zhang, Yuewei and Speck, James and Galazka, Zbigniew and Darakchieva, Vanya and Schubert, Mathias}},
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