Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 36, Pages 33140-33146Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b11316
Keywords
heteroepitaxy; semipolar GaN; stacking faults; LEDs; surface kinetics
Funding
- Saphlux Inc. [AVVDR14180]
- YINQE
- NSF MRSEC [DMR 1119826]
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We report a novel approach to eliminate stacking faults (SFs) and prepare large-area, SF-free semipolar gallium nitride (GaN) on sapphire substrates. A root cause of the formation of basal-plane SFs is the emergence of N-polar (000 (1) over bar) facets during semipolar and nonpolar heteroepitaxies. Invoking the concept of kinetic Wulff plot, we succeeded in suppressing the occurrence of N-polar GaN (000 (1) over bar) facets and, consequently, in eliminating the stacking faults generated in (000 (1) over bar) basal planes. Furthermore, InGaN light-emitting diodes with promising characteristics have been produced on the SF-free semipolar (20 (2) over bar1) GaN on sapphire substrates. Our work opens up a new insight into the heteroepitaxial growth of nonpolar/semipolar GaN and provides an approach of producing SF-free nonpolar/semipolar GaN material over large-area wafers, which will create new opportunities in GaN optoelectronic and microelectronic research.
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