Enhancement of n-type GaN (20-21) semipolar surface morphology in photo-electrochemical undercut etching
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2019-02-28Permanent link to this record
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An ice bath photo-electrochemical (PEC) undercut etching technique to separate devices from substrates is described. Smoothly etched Si-doped (2021) GaN is produced by etching a 40 nm relaxed sacrificial layer single quantum well. This has potential for improving the active region quality of semipolar green-emitter. Removal of unetched misfit dislocations revealed an RMS surface roughness decreasing from = 5.136 to 0.25 nm. In view of the development of green-light emitters, the interplay between the effects of reactant diffusion-limited etch process and defect-selective etching is demonstrated by enhancing PEC etching performance toward a smooth n-type semipolar GaN surface.Citation
Abbas, A. S., Alyamani, A. Y., Nakamura, S., & Dembaars, S. P. (2019). Enhancement of n-type GaN (20–21) semipolar surface morphology in photo-electrochemical undercut etching. Applied Physics Express, 12(3), 036503. doi:10.7567/1882-0786/ab028dSponsors
This work was funded by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Technology Innovations Center (TIC) program and the KACST-KAUST-UCSB Solid State Lighting Program. Additional support was provided by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at UCSB. A portion of this work was done in the UCSB nanofabrication facility, part of the NSF NNIN network (ECS-0335765), as well as the UCSB MRL, which is supported by the NSF MRSEC program (DMR1121053). The authors thank Jared Kearns and Philip Chan for their useful comments.Publisher
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APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESSAdditional Links
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/1882-0786/ab028dae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.7567/1882-0786/ab028d