Thermal Oxidation of Silicon Carbide Substrates |
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Authors: | Xiufang Chen Li&prime na Ning Yingmin Wang Juan Li Xiangang Xu Xiaobo Hu andMinhua Jiang |
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Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China |
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Abstract: | Thermal oxidation was used to remove the subsurface damage of silicon carbide (SiC) surfaces. The anisotrow of oxidation and the composition of oxide layers on Si and C faces were analyzed. Regular pits were observed on the surface after the removal of the oxide layers, which were detrimental to the growth of high quality epitaxial layers. The thickness and composition of the oxide layers were characterized by Rutherford backscat-tering spectrometry (RBS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), respectively. Epitaxial growth was performed in a metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system. The substrate surface morphol-ogy after removing the oxide layer and gallium nitride (GaN) epilayer surface were observed by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The results showed that the GaN epilayer grown on the oxidized substrates was superior to that on the unoxidized substrates. |
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Keywords: | SiC Thermal oxidation GaN epitaxy |
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