Improvement of InN layers deposited on Si(111) by RF sputtering using a low-growth-rate InN buffer layer |
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Authors: | S Valdueza-Felip J IbáñezE Monroy M González-HerráezL Artús FB Naranjo |
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Affiliation: | a Electronics Dept., Polytechnic School, University of Alcalá, Madrid-Barcelona Road, km 33.6, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spainb Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), c/Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spainc CEA-Grenoble, INAC/SP2M/NPSC, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France |
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Abstract: | We investigate the influence of a low-growth-rate InN buffer layer on structural and optical properties of wurtzite nanocrystalline InN films deposited on Si(111) substrates by reactive radio-frequency sputtering. The deposition conditions of the InN buffer layer were optimized in terms of morphological and structural quality, leading to films with surface root-mean-square roughness of ~ 1 nm under low-growth-rate conditions (60 nm/h). The use of the developed InN buffer layer improves the crystalline quality of the subsequent InN thick films deposited at high growth rate (180 nm/h), as confirmed by the narrowing of X-ray diffraction peaks and the increase of the average grain size of the layers. This improvement of the structural quality is further confirmed by Raman scattering spectroscopy measurements. Room temperature PL emission peaking at ~ 1.58 eV is observed for InN samples grown with the developed buffer layer. The crystal and optical quality obtained for InN films grown on Si(111) using the low-growth-rate InN buffer layer become comparable to high-quality InN films deposited directly on GaN templates by RF sputtering. |
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Keywords: | Semiconductors Indium nitride Sputtering X-ray diffraction Photoluminescence Raman |
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