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Single domain structure of 2H-AlN films on Si(001) substrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Joerg Jinschek ,
Vadim Lebedev ,
Ute Kaiser  and
Wolfgang Richter
Joerg Jinschek
Affiliation:
Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany, email: [email protected]
Vadim Lebedev
Affiliation:
Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany
Ute Kaiser
Affiliation:
Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany
Wolfgang Richter
Affiliation:
Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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Abstract

Aluminum nitride (2H-AlN) films were grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on Si(001). By conventional (CTEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) investigations the influence of the off-axis angle of the substrate surface on the film structure was studied. Three types of Si(001) substrates were used: on-axis, ∼1°, and ∼5° off-axis. The 2H-AlN layer on an exact oriented Si(001) substrates consists of 3 AlN film domains: two main film domains, AlNI and AlNII, and a small domain AlNIII at substrate surface defects. Their c-axis orientations are parallel to the c-axis of the substrate: [0001]AlNI,II,III ∥ [001]Si. The a-axes of AlNI and AlNII rotated by 30° to each other: [11 20]AlNII∥[01 10]AlNII ∥ [1 1 0]Si. The orientation of AlNIII is [01 10]AlNIII ∥ [100]Si. In 2H-AlN films grown on off-axis Si(001) substrates (∼1° and ∼5°) the ratio between the AlNI and AlNII film domains changes dramatically as far as a single domain film structure consisting of mainly AlNI is reached. The AlN c-axes of all domains on the off-axis substrates are not parallel to the Si c-axis but tilted by the off-axis angle of the Si(001) substrate (∼1° respectively ∼5°), i.e. [0001]AlN is parallel to the Si(001) substrate surface orientation. Determination of the AlNI domain / Si(001) interface structure by HRTEM illuminates the origin of the preference of this domain in the 2H-AlN film by using off-axis Si(001) substrates. On the on-axis substrate a regular array of misfit dislocations causes a 5:4 fit between the (1 1 00)AlN and ( 1 1 0)Si lattice planes. The off-axis Si(001) leads to a rotation of the AlN lattice in respect of the Si lattice. An array of misfit dislocations with a 4:3 fit between (1 1 01)AlN and ( 1 1 1)Si lattice planes decreases the residual lattice misfit from -1.6% to -0.8%.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 680: Symposium E – Wide Bandgap Electronics , 2001 , E9.7
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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