Patterning of LiGaO2 and LiAlO2 by Wet and Dry Etching
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
LiGaO2 and LiAlO2 have similar lattice constants to GaN, and may prove useful as substrates for III-nitride epitaxy. We have found that these materials may be wet chemically etched in a number of acid solutions, including HF, at rates between 150–40,000 Å/min. Dry etching with SF6/Ar plasmas provides faster rates than Cl2/Ar or CH4/H2/Ar under Electron Cyclotron Resonance conditions, indicating the fluoride etch products are more volatile that their chloride or metalorganic/hydride counterparts. Dry etch rates are low ( < 2, 000 Å/min), providing high selectivity (>5) over the nitrides. The incorporation of hydrogen in these materials is also of interest because this could provide a reservoir of hydrogen that may passivate dopants in overlying nitride films. In 2H implanted samples, 50 % of the deuterium is lost by evolution from the surface by annealing at 400 °C for 20 min and all of the deuterium is gone at 700°C. The diffusivity of 2H is ∼10-13 cm2/s at 250°C in LiA1O2, approximately two orders of magnitude higher than in LiGaO2.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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