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14 March 2018 High-temperature annealing of AlN on sapphire using face-to-face method (Conference Presentation)
Hideto Miyake, Yusuke Hayashi, Shi-yu Xiao, Kazumasa Hiramatsu
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Proceedings Volume 10532, Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices XIII; 1053202 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292561
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
To fabricate such deep UV devices, a high-quality underlying AlN film is desirable because of its wide bandgap. In this work, we studied the effects of thermally annealing sputtered AlN films grown on sapphire substrates on the crystallinity and surface morphology, where the thermal annealing was performed in nitrogen ambient. The effects of annealing were investigated as a function of the sputtered AlN film thickness and the thermal annealing temperature. The thicknesses of the sputtered AlN films were 170 and 340 nm. Subsequently, the sputtered AlN films were thermally annealed in N2 at 1600 - 1700 oC for 1 h. Both the (0002) and (10-12) XRCs of the AlN films had a single sharp peak after thermal annealing owing to the elimination of the tilt and twist components from the sputtered AlN films by high-temperature thermal annealing. The improved crystallinity is related to the solid-phase reactions that occur at high annealing temperatures. The FWHMs of the (0002) and (10-12) XRCs were markedly reduced from 532 to 49 and 6031 to 287 arcsec, respectively. Cross-sectional STEM images of sputtered AlN on sapphire substrate after annealing were observed. Columnar structures are observed in grown layer before annealing while they disappear after annealing. With annealing, hexagonal shaped voids pointed by white arrows form and the polarity invert from N-polar to Al-polar about 10 nm away from AlN/sapphire interface.
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Hideto Miyake, Yusuke Hayashi, Shi-yu Xiao, and Kazumasa Hiramatsu "High-temperature annealing of AlN on sapphire using face-to-face method (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10532, Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices XIII, 1053202 (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292561
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KEYWORDS
Annealing
Aluminum nitride
Sapphire
Crystals
Nanostructures
Deep ultraviolet
Interfaces
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