M-center in low-energy electron irradiated 4H-SiC

We report on the low-energy electron irradiated 4H-SiC material studied by means of deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) and Laplace-DLTS. Electron irradiation has introduced the following deep level defects: EH1 and EH3 previously assigned to carbon interstitial-related defects. We propose that EH1 and EH3 are identical to M-1 and M-3, also recently assigned to carbon interstitial defects, and assign them to C-i(= )( h ) and C-i(0) ( h ), respectively. (C) 2022 Author(s).