Influence of surface structure of (0001) sapphire substrate on the elimination of small-angle grain boundary in AlN epilayer

AlN epilayers were grown on (0001) sapphire substrates by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy, and the influence of the substrate’s surface structure on the formation of in-plane rotation domain is studied. The surface structure is found to change with increasing temperature under H2 ambient. The ML s...

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Main Authors: Ryan G. Banal, Masataka Imura, Yasuo Koide
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2015-09-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4931159