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Characteristics of Fielo-GaN Grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Akira Usui
Affiliation:
System Devices and Fundamental Research, NEC Corporation 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan
Haruo Sunakawa
Affiliation:
System Devices and Fundamental Research, NEC Corporation 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan
Kenji Kobayashi
Affiliation:
System Devices and Fundamental Research, NEC Corporation 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan
Heiji Watanabe
Affiliation:
System Devices and Fundamental Research, NEC Corporation 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan
Masashi Mizuta
Affiliation:
System Devices and Fundamental Research, NEC Corporation 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan
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Abstract

The crystal quality of facet-initiated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (FIELO) -GaN, in particular, that in the vicinity of the GaN surface, is reported. It is shown that the surface smoothness of FIELO-GaN enables us to use it as an “epi-ready” substrate. The crystallinity of FIELO-GaN is evaluated by x-ray rocking curve (XRC) measurements. We indicate that the FWHM of XRC should be reduced with the decrease of the dislocation density. We previously reported that the dislocation behavior of FIELO-GaN causes the tilting of the c-axis in the overgrown regions. By using scanning reflection electron microscopy (SREM), however, we show that the tilting on the surface of thick FIELO-GaN was negligibly small.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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