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AlN Grown by Metalorganic Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

J. D. Mackenzie ,
C. R. Abernathy ,
S. J. Pearton  and
R. G. Wilson
J. D. Mackenzie
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
C. R. Abernathy
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
S. J. Pearton
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
R. G. Wilson
Affiliation:
Hughes Research Laboratory, Malibu, CA
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Abstract

Thin film AlN has been grown on Al2O3 and GaAs substrates by metalorganic molecular beam epitaxy (MOMBE) using amine bonded alane precursors, tertiarybutylamine, and nitrogen from a compact electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma source operating at 2.45 GHz. Typical growth pressures were in the 0.5 − 1 × 10−4 Torr range. The growth rates, impurity backgrounds and surface morphologies were examined for both nitrogen sources and both the solid and liquid alanes. In general, growth efficiencies were good for both alane precursors, allowing for deposition of the low temperature, ∼ 400°C, AlN buffers needed for subsequent growth of GaN and InGaAlN alloys. Low growth temperatures could not be obtained using tertiarybutylamine, presumably due to poor decomposition efficiency of the source at low temperatures. The structural quality of material grown at high temperatures from the ECR plasma was measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and high resolution x-ray diffraction (HRXRD), indicating a surface roughness of ∼ 8 Å and an x-ray width half maximum (FWHM) of 430 arcsec.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 363 , 1994 , 213
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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