Strain-stress study of AlxGa1–xN/AlN heterostructures on c-plane sapphire and related optical properties
Abstract
This work presents a systematic study of stress and strain of AlxGa1-xN/AlN with composition ranging from GaN to AlN, grown on a c-plane sapphire by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, using synchrotron radiation high-resolution X-ray diffraction and reciprocal space mapping. The c-plane of the AlxGa1-xN epitaxial layers exhibits compressive strain, while the a-plane exhibits tensile strain. The biaxial stress and strain are found to increase with increasing Al composition, although the lattice mismatch between the AlxGa1-xN and the buffer layer AlN gets smaller. A reduction in the lateral coherence lengths and an increase in the edge and screw dislocations are seen as the AlxGa1-xN composition is varied from GaN to AlN, exhibiting a clear dependence of the crystal properties of AlxGa1-xN on the Al content. The bandgap of the epitaxial layers is slightly lower than predicted value due to a larger tensile strain effect on the a-axis compared to the compressive strain on the c-axis. Raman characteristics of the AlxGa1-xN samples exhibit a shift in the phonon peaks with the Al composition. The effect of strain on the optical phonon energies of the epitaxial layers is also discussed.
- Authors:
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Birck Nanotechnology Center; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Applied Materials Div.
- Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States). Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Birck Nanotechnology Center
- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Anhui (China). National Synchrotron Radiation Lab.; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
- Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States). Electrical and Computer Engineering; Kennesaw State Univ., Marietta, GA (United States). Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Materials Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1574136
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1580893
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Feng, Yining, Saravade, Vishal, Chung, Ting -Fung, Dong, Yongqi, Zhou, Hua, Kucukgok, Bahadir, Ferguson, Ian T., and Lu, Na. Strain-stress study of AlxGa1–xN/AlN heterostructures on c-plane sapphire and related optical properties. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46628-4.
Feng, Yining, Saravade, Vishal, Chung, Ting -Fung, Dong, Yongqi, Zhou, Hua, Kucukgok, Bahadir, Ferguson, Ian T., & Lu, Na. Strain-stress study of AlxGa1–xN/AlN heterostructures on c-plane sapphire and related optical properties. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46628-4
Feng, Yining, Saravade, Vishal, Chung, Ting -Fung, Dong, Yongqi, Zhou, Hua, Kucukgok, Bahadir, Ferguson, Ian T., and Lu, Na. Mon .
"Strain-stress study of AlxGa1–xN/AlN heterostructures on c-plane sapphire and related optical properties". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46628-4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1574136.
@article{osti_1574136,
title = {Strain-stress study of AlxGa1–xN/AlN heterostructures on c-plane sapphire and related optical properties},
author = {Feng, Yining and Saravade, Vishal and Chung, Ting -Fung and Dong, Yongqi and Zhou, Hua and Kucukgok, Bahadir and Ferguson, Ian T. and Lu, Na},
abstractNote = {This work presents a systematic study of stress and strain of AlxGa1-xN/AlN with composition ranging from GaN to AlN, grown on a c-plane sapphire by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, using synchrotron radiation high-resolution X-ray diffraction and reciprocal space mapping. The c-plane of the AlxGa1-xN epitaxial layers exhibits compressive strain, while the a-plane exhibits tensile strain. The biaxial stress and strain are found to increase with increasing Al composition, although the lattice mismatch between the AlxGa1-xN and the buffer layer AlN gets smaller. A reduction in the lateral coherence lengths and an increase in the edge and screw dislocations are seen as the AlxGa1-xN composition is varied from GaN to AlN, exhibiting a clear dependence of the crystal properties of AlxGa1-xN on the Al content. The bandgap of the epitaxial layers is slightly lower than predicted value due to a larger tensile strain effect on the a-axis compared to the compressive strain on the c-axis. Raman characteristics of the AlxGa1-xN samples exhibit a shift in the phonon peaks with the Al composition. The effect of strain on the optical phonon energies of the epitaxial layers is also discussed.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-46628-4},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
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