Journal
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
Volume 312, Issue 11, Pages 1817-1822Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2010.03.008
Keywords
Decomposition; Photoluminescence; X-ray diffraction; Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition; Nitrides; Light-emitting diodes
Funding
- Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, United States Department of Energy [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
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The thermal stability of similar to 200-nm-thick InGaN thin films on GaN was investigated using isothermal and isochronal post-growth anneals. The InxGa1-xN films (x = 0.08-0.18) were annealed in N-2 at 600-1000 degrees C for 15-60 min, and the resulting film degradation was monitored using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and photoluminescence (PL) measurements. As expected, films with higher indium concentration showed more evidence for decomposition than the samples with lower indium concentration. Also for each alloy composition, decreases in the PL intensity were observed starting at much lower temperatures compared to decreases in the XRD intensity. This difference in sensitivity of the PL and XRD techniques to the InGaN decomposition suggest that defects that quench luminescence are generated prior to the onset of structural decomposition. For the higher indium concentration films, the bulk decomposition proceeds by forming metallic indium and gallium regions as observed by XRD. For the 18% indium concentration film, measurement of the temperature-dependent InGaN decomposition yields an activation energy, E-A, of 0.87 +/- 0.07 eV, which is similar to the E-A for bulk InN decomposition. The InGaN integrated XRD signal of the 18% film displays an exponential decrease vs. time, implying InGaN decomposition proceeds via a first-order reaction mechanism. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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