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SUPERLATTICES AND MICROSTRUCTURES
Volume 40, Issue 4-6, Pages 279-288Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2006.06.011
Keywords
etching; defects; characterization; semiconducting III-V materials
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Two defect-selective etching approaches used for revealing and analysis of defects in wide-band-gap semiconductors (GaN, SiC) are described in detail: (i) orthodox etching in molten salts (KOH, NaOH) and hot acids (H2SO4, H3PO4) and (ii) electroless photo-etching (photoelectrochemical or PEC) in aqueous solutions of KOH. Characteristic features of these two techniques, their reliability and limitation in revealing different types of defects (dislocations, stacking faults, micro-defects and electrically active chemical nonhomogeneities) will be discussed. Examples of the use of both etching approaches to reveal defects in bulk and epitaxial layers of different crystallographic orientation are given. Numerous references to previous work on calibration of the etch features by means of TEM, X-ray diffraction, Raman and PL methods are cited. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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