Journal
NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGEROPEN
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2301-8
Keywords
ZnO; Surface morphology; Initial growth; MBE; RHEED; XRD; PL
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1332105, 61227009, 91321102]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities [20720160020]
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Wurtzite ZnO films were grown on MgO(111) substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Different initial growth conditions were designed to monitor the film quality. All the grown ZnO films show highly (0001)-oriented textures without in-plane rotation, as illustrated by in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and ex situ X-ray diffraction (XRD). As demonstrated by atomic force microscopy (AFM) images, ridge-like and particle-like surface morphologies are observed for the ZnO films grown in a molecular O2 atmosphere with and without an initial deposition of Zn adatoms, respectively, before ZnO growth with oxygen plasma. This artificially designed interfacial layer deeply influences the final surface morphology and optical properties of the ZnO film. From room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) measurements, a strong defect-related green luminescence band appears for the ZnO film with a particle-like morphology but was hardly observed in the films with flat ridge-like surface morphologies. Our work suggests that the ZnO crystallinity can be improved and defect luminescence can be reduced by designing interfacial layers between substrates and epilayers.
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