High Temperature Stability of Electrical and Optical Properties of Bulk GaN:Mg Grown by HNPS Method in Different Crystallographic Directions

Single crystals of Mg-doped GaN grown by high nitrogen pressure solution method in different crystallographic directions ([0001], [101̅1], and [101̅1̅]) were investigated in order to determine thermal stability of their electrical and optical properties. Obtained dependences of resistivity, the Hall coefficient and energy shift of Mg-related photoluminescence peak on annealing temperature allow to suggest that incorporation of Mg in GaN is significantly influenced by the direction of the crystallization front.