PEMBE-Growth of Gallium Nitride on (0001) Sapphire: A comparison to MOCVD grown GaN
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research
Abstract
Thin films of GaN on c-plane sapphire were grown by plasma-enhanced molecular beam epitaxy (PEMBE). The influence of different growth conditions on the quality of the epitaxial layers was studied by x-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Hall measurements. For low deposition temperatures, the growth of a thin buffer layer of AlN results in a decrease of the XRD rocking curve full width at half maximum (FWHM) but also in poorer quality in electronic and optical properties. Samples of 3μm thickness with 570 arcsec FWHM in the XRD rocking curve, a near band gap PL-emission FWHM at 5 K of 7 meV, charge carrier densities of ne = 2 × 1017 cm−3, and Hall mobilities of 270 cm2/Vs at 300 K were grown without a buffer layer. A comparison of the morphology and XRD rocking curves with those of GaN films deposited by metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) shows that the two methods have different growth mechanisms.Keywords
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