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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2010.11.2.409

GaN Epitaxy with PA-MBE on HF Cleaned Cobalt-silicide Buffer Layer  

Ha, Jun-Seok (Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Chang, Ji-Ho (Department of Nano Semiconductor Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Song, Oh-Sung (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Seoul)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.11, no.2, 2010 , pp. 409-413 More about this Journal
Abstract
We fabricated 10 nm-thick cobalt silicide($CoSi_2$) as a buffer layer on a p-type Si(100) substrate to investigate the possibility of GaN epitaxial growth on $CoSi_2/Si(100)$ substrates. We deposited 500 nm-GaN on the cobalt silicide buffer layer at low temperature with a PA-MBE (plasma assisted-molecular beam epitaxy) after the $CoSi_2/Si$ substrates were cleaned by HF solution. An optical microscopy, AFM, TEM, and HR-XRD (high resolution X-ray diffractometer) were employed to determine the GaN epitaxy. For the GaN samples without HF cleaning, they showed no GaN epitaxial growth. For the GaN samples with HF cleaning, they showed $4\;{\mu}m$-thick GaN epitaxial growth due to surface etching of the silicide layers. Through XRD $\omega$-scan of GaN <0002> direction, we confirmed the cyrstallinity of GaN epitaxy is $2.7^{\circ}$ which is comparable with that of sapphire substrate. Our result implied that $CoSi_2/Si(100)$ substrate would be a good buffer and substrate for GaN epitaxial growth.
Keywords
GaN; Epitaxy; PA-MBE; Cobalt Silicide Buffer; Silicon Substrate;
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