Layered compound substrates for GaN growth

Autor: Kok Pin Ho, Akiyoshi Yamada, Katsuhiro Akimoto, Takayuki Akaogi, Takahiro Maruyama
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Journal of Crystal Growth. :332-335
ISSN: 0022-0248
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-0248(98)01342-6
Popis: A feasibility study on layered compound substrates such as MoS 2 and mica for GaN growth was carried out. GaN films were successfully grown on MoS 2 by plasma enhanced molecular beam epitaxy and the crystal quality of GaN on MoS 2 was compared with that on Al 2 O 3 . The optical and structural properties, surface flatness and residual stress in GaN films on MoS 2 were remarkably improved compared with that on Al 2 O 3 substrate. These results suggest that MoS 2 , which has no dangling bonds on the surface and a lattice mismatch of 0.9%, has high potentiality for use as a substrate for GaN growth. The crystal quality of GaN on a mica substrate which has a lattice mismatch of 60% was not so good. The importance of lattice matching even on using layered compound substrates is suggested.
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