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Understanding the Pyramidal Growth of GaN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

J.-L. Rouviere ,
M. Arlery ,
A. Bourret ,
R. Niebuhr  and
K.-H. Bachem
J.-L. Rouviere
Affiliation:
CEA/Grenoble Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée/SP2M/LS 17 rue des Martyrs - 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
M. Arlery
Affiliation:
CEA/Grenoble Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée/SP2M/LS 17 rue des Martyrs - 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
A. Bourret
Affiliation:
CEA/Grenoble Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée/SP2M/LS 17 rue des Martyrs - 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
R. Niebuhr
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer-Institut for Applied Solid State Physics Tullast. 72, 79108 Freiburg i.Br. Germany
K.-H. Bachem
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer-Institut for Applied Solid State Physics Tullast. 72, 79108 Freiburg i.Br. Germany
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Abstract

By a combination of conventional, HREM and CBED TEM experiments we have studied wurtzite GaN layers grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition (MOCVD) on (0001)Al2O3. We experimentally determine the structure of the macroscopic hexagonal pyramids that are visible at the surface of the layers when no optimised buffer is introduced. These pyramids look like hexagonal volcanoes with one hexagonal microscopic chimney (up to 75nm wide) at their core. The crystal inside the chimney is a pure GaN crystal with a polarity opposed to the one of the neighbouring material : the GaN layers grown on (0001)Al2O3 are everywhere Ga-terminated except in the chimneys where they are N-terminated. Some of the N-terminated chimneys grow faster and form macroscopic hexagonal pyramids. Chimneys bounded by Inversion Domains Boundaries (IDBs) originate from steps at the surface of the substrate and may be suppressed by an adapted buffer layer.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 395: Symposium AAA – Gallium Nitride and Related Materials: The First International Symp , 1995 , 393
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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