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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 121, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4974458
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- Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI)
- NEDO
- JAEA [2015A3872, 2015B3801, 2015B3872, 2016A3822]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26420289] Funding Source: KAKEN
Initial oxidation of gallium nitride (GaN) (0001) epilayers and subsequent growth of thermal oxides in dry oxygen ambient were investigated by means of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, spectroscopic ellipsometry, atomic force microscopy, and x-ray diffraction measurements. It was found that initial oxide formation tends to saturate at temperatures below 800 degrees C, whereas the selective growth of small oxide grains proceeds at dislocations in the epilayers, followed by noticeable grain growth, leading to a rough surface morphology at higher oxidation temperatures. This indicates that oxide growth and its morphology are crucially dependent on the defect density in the GaN epilayers. Structural characterizations also reveal that polycrystalline alpha- and beta-phase Ga2O3 grains in an epitaxial relation with the GaN substrate are formed from the initial stage of the oxide growth. We propose a comprehensive model for GaN oxidation mediated by nitrogen removal and mass transport and discuss the model on the basis of experimental findings. Published by AIP Publishing.
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