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http://dx.doi.org/10.6111/JKCGCT.2017.27.3.143

The study of evaluating surface characteristics and effect of thermal annealing process for AlN single crystal grown by PVT method  

Kang, Hyo Sang (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kang, Suk Hyun (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Park, Cheol Woo (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Park, Jae Hwa (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Hyun Mi (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Jung Hun (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Hee Ae (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Joo Hyung (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kang, Seung Min (International Graduate School of Design Convergence, Hanseo University)
Shim, Kwang Bo (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)
Abstract
To evaluate surface characteristics and improve crystalline quality of AlN single crystal grown by physical vapor transport (PVT) method, wet chemical etching process using $KOH/H_2O_2$ mixture in a low temperature condition and thermal annealing process was proceeded respectively. Conventional etching process using strong base etchant at a high temperature (above $300^{\circ}C$) had formed over etching phenomenon according to crystalline quality of materials. When it occurred to over etching phenomenon, it had a low reliability of dislocation density because it cannot show correct number of etch pits per estimated area. Therefore, it was proceeded to etching process in a low temperature (below $100^{\circ}C$) using $H_2O_2$ as an oxidizer in KOH aqueous solution and to be determined optimum etching condition and dislocation density via scanning electron microscope (SEM). For improving crystalline quality of AlN single crystal, thermal annealing process was proceeded. When compared with specimens as-prepared and as-annealed, full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the specimen as-annealed was decreased exponentially, and we analyzed the mechanism of this process via double crystal X-ray diffraction (DC-XRD).
Keywords
Aluminum nitride; Wet chemical etching; Thermal annealing process;
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