Papers by Keyword: III-V Nitrides

Abstract: Indium gallium nitride / gallium nitride (InGaN/GaN) heterostructures were grown by using metal organic vapor deposition technique with four different growth temperatures (740 °C, 760 °C, 780 °C, and 800 °C). The structural properties and crystalline quality were investigated using high resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) technique. XRD ω-2θ scan mode at GaN (002) diffraction plane was performed to assess the film’s quality. Through the simulation fitting, the indium composition and the thickness of the thin films were obtained. From the observation, an increase in the growth temperature resulted in higher intensity and smaller full-width at half maximum value of the InGaN (002) diffraction peak, which indicated improvement to the crystalline quality of the InGaN/GaN heterostructure. Moreover, the indium composition of the InGaN epilayer was found to decrease with an increase of the growth temperature due to the thermal decomposition of In-N bond and its re-evaporation from the growing surfaces.

Abstract: The high quality GaAsN epitaxial films with the typical thickness of 150-200 nm and the N contents up to 5.5% were grown by MOVPE. The maximum N content of 2.75% at the growth temperature of 550 oC was enhanced to 5.1% at 500 oC and 5.5% at 450 oC. The lower growth temperature may efficiently suppress desorption of N atoms from the growing surface. The narrow high-resolution X-ray diffraction peaks and the clear Pendellösung fringes indicate that the GaAsN films with high uniformity and fairly flat interface were obtained. The 6K-photoluminescence (PL) peak energy of the GaAsN films was varied from 1.38 eV to 1.01 eV with increasing N content up to 2.75%, but no near-band-edge emission was observed in the higher-N-content films, indicating the increase of nonradiative recombination centers caused by the N-related lattice imperfections. Besides, after post growth thermal annealing at 650 oC for 2 min, PL spectrum shows that the near-band-edge emission as low as 0.97 eV (1.3 μm) have been achieved with the film of 5.1% N.