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Improvement of Epitaxy GaN Quality Using Liquid-Phase Deposited Nano-Patterned Sapphire Substrates
(2012-12-15)
Hsieh, Cheng-Yu
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Lin, Bo-Wen
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Cho, Hsin-Ju
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Wang, Bau-Ming
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Chang, Nancy
A relatively simple and easy and inexpensive liquid-phase deposition (LPD) method is employed to introduce nanoscale silica hemispheres on sapphire substrates for fabricating a nano-patterned sapphire substrate (NPSS). Compared with GaN grown on sapphire without any pattern, the NPSS-GaN film is of much better quality as observed by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron-microscopy, X-ray diffraction, cathodoluminescence, and photoluminescence. This is because GaN is initiated from the c-plane instead of the LPD-silica surface. In addition, many dislocations within the NPSS-GaN bend toward the patterns, or end at the GaN/void interfaces.