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Photoluminescence of Wet- and Dry-Etched Gallium Nitride

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

E. E. Reuter ,
C. Youtsey ,
I. Adesida  and
S. G. Bishop
E. E. Reuter
Affiliation:
Microelectronics Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana, 208 N Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801
C. Youtsey
Affiliation:
Microelectronics Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana, 208 N Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801
I. Adesida
Affiliation:
Microelectronics Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana, 208 N Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801
S. G. Bishop
Affiliation:
Microelectronics Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana, 208 N Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801
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Abstract

The photoluminescence (PL) of GaN grown on SiC is studied as a function of etch depth for two types of etches, photoelectrochemical and chemically assisted ion beam. It is found that as the etch proceeds deeper toward the substrate, the PL exhibits an increasing blue-shift and an increase in emission intensity of the donor acceptor pair band, which indicates increasing biaxial compressive stress and increasing impurity concentration near the substrate. The PL spectra of the dry etched GaN tended to have slightly higher intensities than comparably wet etched GaN.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 482 , 1997 , 997
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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