Journal
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
Volume 377, Issue -, Pages 51-58Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.04.038
Keywords
Hexagonal hillock; Polarity; Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition; N-polar GaN; N-polar AlN; Nitrides
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1006763]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1006763] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We investigated the effect of AlN buffer layers on hexagonal hillock formation and the crystallinity of N-polar GaN films grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on vicinal C-face SiC substrates misoriented toward < 11 <(2)over bar>0 > by 3.6 degrees and < 10 <(1)over bar>0 > by 4 degrees. As the source input group V/III ratio increased from 650 to 16310 and growth temperature was raised from 1100 degrees C to 1150 degrees C during AlN buffer layer growth on the substrates with < 11 <(2)over bar>0 > miscut direction, the threading dislocation (TD) density of the AlN buffer layers and subsequent N-polar GaN films decreased. TD density of AlN and GaN films grown on < 10 <(1)over bar>0 > misoriented substrates was higher in comparison to that grown on < 11<(2)over bar>0 > miscut substrates. The hexagonal hillock density of the N-polar GaN films was reduced by increasing the AlN V/III ratio up to 16310 and decreasing the AlN thickness from 90 to 30 nm, indicating that nucleation of inversion domain occurs during AlN buffer growth. Hexagonal hillocks were completely suppressed in N-polar GaN films grown on both substrates when the growth temperature of the 30 nm thick AlN was increased from 1100 degrees C to 1150 degrees C at a V/III ratio of 16310. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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