Influence of the substrate misorientation on the properties of N-polar InGaN/GaN and AlGaN/GaN heterostructures
Smooth N-polar InGaN/GaN and AlGaN/GaN multiquantum wells (MQWs) and heterostructures were grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition on (0001) sapphire substrates with misorientation angles of 2 ° - 5 ° toward the a -sapphire plane. For all investigated structures the tendency toward formatio...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of applied physics 2008-11, Vol.104 (9), p.093510-093510-6 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Smooth N-polar InGaN/GaN and AlGaN/GaN multiquantum wells (MQWs) and heterostructures were grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition on (0001) sapphire substrates with misorientation angles of
2
°
-
5
°
toward the
a
-sapphire plane. For all investigated structures the tendency toward formation of multiatomic steps at the film surface and at interfaces increased with increasing misorientation angle. Thereby the crystal misorientation led to a stronger degradation of the interface quality and periodicity of InGaN/GaN in comparison to the AlGaN/GaN MQWs. While the alloy composition of AlGaN films was unaffected by the misorientation, the indium mole fraction in the InGaN layers and the wavelength of the MQW related luminescence decreased with increasing misorientation angle. The properties of the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG), which formed at the upper interface of semi-insulating GaN/AlGaN/GaN heterostructures, were strongly anisotropic. Whereas the resistivity of the 2DEG measured perpendicular to the surface steps/undulations decreased with increasing misorientation angle, the resistivity measured in the parallel direction was significantly lower and unaffected by the crystal misorientation. Electron mobility values as high as
1800
cm
2
/
V
s
were determined for conduction parallel to the surface steps/undulations. |
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ISSN: | 0021-8979 1089-7550 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.3006132 |