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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2435799
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Heat removal from III-Nitride-based devices into a substrate depends also on an acoustic coupling at III-Nitride/substrate interface. We investigate thermal boundary resistance (TBR) and its effects on temperature distribution for GaN layers on Si, SiC, or sapphire substrates. Micro-Raman method is used for the investigation of TBR at the GaN/Si interface while the transient interferometric mapping (TIM) method is used for investigation of GaN/SiC and GaN/sapphire systems. Thermal modeling is used to analyze the experimental data. We found TBR to be similar to 7x10(-8) m(2) K/W for GaN/Si and similar to 1.2x10(-7) m(2) K/W for GaN/SiC interfaces. The role of TBR at the GaN/sapphire interface in the poor heat transfer from GaN to substrate is found to be less important. It is suggested that the substrate cooling efficiency may be improved if fewer defects are present at the interface to the GaN epistructure. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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