Synergistic effect of reactor chemistry and compressive stress on dislocation bending during GaN growth

The synergistic effect of compressive growth stresses and reactor chemistry, silane presence, on dislocation bending at the very early stages of GaN growth has been studied using in-situ stress measurements and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy. A single 100 nm Si-doped GaN layer is f...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 2013-07, Vol.103 (4)
Hauptverfasser: Nagaboopathy, Mohan, Ravishankar, Narayanan, Raghavan, Srinivasan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The synergistic effect of compressive growth stresses and reactor chemistry, silane presence, on dislocation bending at the very early stages of GaN growth has been studied using in-situ stress measurements and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy. A single 100 nm Si-doped GaN layer is found to be more effective than a 1 μm linearly graded AlGaN buffer layer in reducing dislocation density and preventing the subsequent layer from transitioning to a tensile stress. 1 μm crack-free GaN layers with a dislocation density of 7 × 108/cm2, with 0.13 nm surface roughness and no enhancement in n-type background are demonstrated over 2 inch substrates using this simple transition scheme.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/1.4816742