Dislocation information and strain-related tetragonal distortion as well as crystalline qualities of a 2-μm-thick InN film grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are characterized by Rutherford backscattering/channeli...Dislocation information and strain-related tetragonal distortion as well as crystalline qualities of a 2-μm-thick InN film grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are characterized by Rutherford backscattering/channeling (RBS/C) and synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction (SR-XRD).The minimum yield xmin=2.5% deduced from the RBS/C results indicates a fairly good crystalline quality.From the SR-XRD results,we obtain the values of the screw and edge densities to be ρscrew =7.0027 X 10^(9) and ρedge =8.6115 × 10^(9) cm-2,respectively.The tetragonal distortion of the sample is found to be -0.27 % by angular scans,which is close to the -0.28 % derived by SR-XRD.The value of |e(⊥)/e‖| =0.6742 implies that the InN layer is much stiffer along the a axis than that along the c axis,where e‖ is the parallel elastic strain,and e⊥ is the perpendicular elastic strain.Photoluminescence results reveal a main peak of 0.653eV with the linewidth of 60meV,additional shoulder band could be due to impurities and related defects.展开更多
Structural properties of InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN multi-quantum wells(MQWs)grown on sapphire by metal organic chemical vapor deposition are investigated by synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction(SRXRD),Rutherford backscatter...Structural properties of InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN multi-quantum wells(MQWs)grown on sapphire by metal organic chemical vapor deposition are investigated by synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction(SRXRD),Rutherford backscattering/channelling(RBS/C)and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.The sample consists of eight periods of InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN wells of 2.1 nm thickness and 8.5 nm thickness of GaN barrier,and the results are very close,which verifies the accuracy of the three methods.The indium content in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs by SRXRD and RBS/C is estimated,and results are in general the same.By RBS/C random spectra,the indium atomic lattice substitution rate is 94.0%,indicating that almost all indium atoms in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs are at substitution,that the indium distribution of each layer in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs is very homogeneous and that the InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs have a very good crystalline quality.It is not accurate to estimate indium content in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs by photoluminescence(PL)spectra,because the result from the PL experimental method is very different from the results by the SRXRD and RBS/C experimental methods.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10875004the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2010CB832904。
文摘Dislocation information and strain-related tetragonal distortion as well as crystalline qualities of a 2-μm-thick InN film grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are characterized by Rutherford backscattering/channeling (RBS/C) and synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction (SR-XRD).The minimum yield xmin=2.5% deduced from the RBS/C results indicates a fairly good crystalline quality.From the SR-XRD results,we obtain the values of the screw and edge densities to be ρscrew =7.0027 X 10^(9) and ρedge =8.6115 × 10^(9) cm-2,respectively.The tetragonal distortion of the sample is found to be -0.27 % by angular scans,which is close to the -0.28 % derived by SR-XRD.The value of |e(⊥)/e‖| =0.6742 implies that the InN layer is much stiffer along the a axis than that along the c axis,where e‖ is the parallel elastic strain,and e⊥ is the perpendicular elastic strain.Photoluminescence results reveal a main peak of 0.653eV with the linewidth of 60meV,additional shoulder band could be due to impurities and related defects.
基金by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10875004 and 11005005the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2010CB832904.
文摘Structural properties of InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN multi-quantum wells(MQWs)grown on sapphire by metal organic chemical vapor deposition are investigated by synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction(SRXRD),Rutherford backscattering/channelling(RBS/C)and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.The sample consists of eight periods of InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN wells of 2.1 nm thickness and 8.5 nm thickness of GaN barrier,and the results are very close,which verifies the accuracy of the three methods.The indium content in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs by SRXRD and RBS/C is estimated,and results are in general the same.By RBS/C random spectra,the indium atomic lattice substitution rate is 94.0%,indicating that almost all indium atoms in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs are at substitution,that the indium distribution of each layer in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs is very homogeneous and that the InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs have a very good crystalline quality.It is not accurate to estimate indium content in InxGa_(1−x)N/GaN MQWs by photoluminescence(PL)spectra,because the result from the PL experimental method is very different from the results by the SRXRD and RBS/C experimental methods.
