Selective area growth of GaN nanostructures: A key to produce high quality (11–20) a-plane pseudo-substrates

Selective area growth of GaN nanostructures was performed on (11-20) a-plane GaN/sapphire templates. The dominant lateral growth rate along the in-plane c-direction produces the coalescence of the individual nanostructures into a continuous film. Photoluminescence measurements show the appearance of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 2014-09, Vol.105 (9)
Hauptverfasser: Albert, S., Bengoechea-Encabo, A., Zuniga-Perez, J., de Mierry, P., Val, P., Sanchez-Garcia, M. A., Calleja, E.
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Zusammenfassung:Selective area growth of GaN nanostructures was performed on (11-20) a-plane GaN/sapphire templates. The dominant lateral growth rate along the in-plane c-direction produces the coalescence of the individual nanostructures into a continuous film. Photoluminescence measurements show the appearance of donor-bound and free exciton emissions in individual nanostructures, pointing towards an improvement of the material quality as compared to the original template. Upon nanostructures coalescence a decrease of the full width half maximum value, down to 2 meV, is observed. These results reveal the high quality of the coalesced film, opening the way to fabricate high quality, non-polar GaN pseudo-substrates.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/1.4894802