Self-Separation of Freestanding GaN from Sapphire Substrates by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy
β Scribed by Tomita, K. ;Kachi, T. ;Nagai, S. ;Kojima, A. ;Yamasaki, S. ;Koike, M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 194
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8965
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β¦ Synopsis
Freestanding GaN wafers were produced by a newly developed self-separation method. Thick GaN layers were grown using hydride vapor phase epitaxy on a sapphire substrate with GaN seeds. The separation of the thick GaN layers took place during the growth sequence at the interface of GaN/sapphire, because of thermal stress and lattice mismatch between GaN and sapphire. The size of the freestanding GaN wafers was 23 mm Γ 22 mm. The threading dislocation density at the top surface was 10 6 cm --2 to $10 7 cm --2 .
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We demonstrate in this work the effects of flow modulation on the crystalline quality and morphology of GaN epilayers grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy. The improvement in the structural qualtiy is attributed to the strain relaxation, dislocations suppression and enhanced Ga diffusion.