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Influence of the Growth Atmosphere on the Properties of AIN Grown by Plasma - Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

T. Ogawa ,
M. Okamoto ,
Y. Mori  and
T. Sasaki
T. Ogawa
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
M. Okamoto
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
Y. Mori
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
T. Sasaki
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
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Abstract

We have grown highly oriented aluminum nitride (AIN) thin films on Si (100) substrates by using pulsed laser deposition from sintering AIN targets. Three different growth environments, vacuum, nitrogen gas, and nitrogen plasma, have been used in order to investigate the effect of the ambient on the film quality. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry suggests that the N/Al ratio increases when the AIN film is grown in a nitrogen-contained ambient. Cathodoluminescence study implies the decrease of oxygen content in the film grown in a nitrogen plasma ambient.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 423: Symposium E – III-Nitride, SiC, and Diamond Materials for Electronic , 1996 , 391
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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