High-quality and large-area 3C–SiC growth on 6H–SiC(0 0 0 1) seed crystal with top-seeded solution method

✍ Scribed by Toru Ujihara; Kazuaki Seki; Ryo Tanaka; Shigeta Kozawa; Alexander; Kai Morimoto; Katsuhiro Sasaki; Yoshikazu Takeda

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 693 KB
• Volume: 318
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0248
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2010.10.148

✦ Synopsis

We have grown high-quality and large-area (18 Â 18 mm 2 ) 3C-SiC crystals on 6H-SiC seed crystals heteroepitaxially using a top-seeded solution method. The key technique here is the intentional inducement of a stacking error just at the surface of the seed crystal and crystal growth under conditions where the 3C-SiC is thermodynamically stable. The solution method developed here can be used to grow larger-area 3C-SiC crystals using 6H-SiC seed crystals 2-4 in. in diameter grown by a sublimation method. In cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy images, a transition area composed of twinned 3C-SiC variants was observed just above the boundary where the polytype changed from 6H-SiC to 3C-SiC. This transition area can be explained by lateral growth and collision of different variant 3C-SiC crystals.