Thermal expansion of gallium nitride
- 15 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (8) , 4909-4911
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.357273
Abstract
Lattice constants of gallium nitride (wurzite structure) have been measured at temperatures 294–753 K. The measurements were performed by using x-ray diffractometry. Two kinds of samples were used: (1) bulk monocrystal grown at pressure of 15 kbar, (2) epitaxial layer grown on a sapphire substrate. The latter had a smaller lattice constant in a direction parallel to the interface plane by about 0.03%. This difference was induced by a higher thermal expansion of the sapphire with respect to the GaN layer. However, this thermal strain was created mainly at temperatures below 500–600 K. Above these temperatures the lattice mismatch in parallel direction diminished to zero at a temperature of about 800 K.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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