Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1823037 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2013 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

We performed high-energy proton and electron irradiation on a GaN Schottky diode and investigated the effects on its electrical properties. No significant changes in the dark current or breakdown voltage of the diode were observed for fluences up to ∼1014protons/cm2. The currents increased by a factor of ∼103∼103 at a fluence of ∼1015protons/cm2. The currents also fluctuated unstably at these fluences but this unstable behavior was not observed after a few months. Intrinsic defects may have been induced by particle irradiation and some of them annealed through a relaxation process. Under electron irradiation, the dark currents did not show a notable increase even with the fluence of ∼1016electrons/cm2.

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