Mg-induced terahertz transparency of indium nitride films

Abstract

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) has been used to investigate electrical properties of Mg-doped indium nitride (InN). Mg-doping in InN was found to significantly increase terahertz transmittance. THz-TDS analysis based on the Drude model shows that this high transmittance from Mg-doped InN is mainly due to the reduction in mobility associated with ionized dopants. The Hall-effect-measured mobility is typically lower than the THz-TDS-measured mobility for the same samples. However, the results of both measurements have the same slope in the linear relation between mobility and density. By introducing a compensation ratio of similar to 0.2, an excellent agreement in mobilities of two methods is obtained. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3669538]