High-resistive layers obtained through periodic growth and in situ annealing of InGaN by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

High-resistive layers were obtained by periodic growth and in situ annealing of InGaN. The effect of the annealing temperature of InGaN on the indium content and the material sheet resistive was investigated. The indium content decreased as the increase of in situ annealing temperature. Additionally, the material sheet resistance increased with the increase of the in situ annealing temperature for the annealed samples and reached 2 × 1010Ω/sq in the light and 2 × 1011Ω/sq in the dark when the in situ annealing temperature reached 970∘C. The acquirement of high-resistive layers is attributed to the generation of indium vacancy-related defects. Introducing indium vacancy-related defects to compensate background carriers can be an effective method to grow high-resistance material.