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III-Nitride Growth on Lithium Niobate: A New Substrate Material for Polarity Engineering in III-Nitride Heteroepitaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

W. Alan Doolittle ,
Gon Namkoong ,
Alexander Carver ,
Walter Henderson ,
Dieter Jundt  and
April S. Brown
W. Alan Doolittle
Affiliation:
Crystal Technology, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Gon Namkoong
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 777 Atlantic Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332–0269, USA, alan.doolittle@ece.gatech.edu
Alexander Carver
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 777 Atlantic Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332–0269, USA, alan.doolittle@ece.gatech.edu
Walter Henderson
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 777 Atlantic Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332–0269, USA, alan.doolittle@ece.gatech.edu
Dieter Jundt
Affiliation:
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
April S. Brown
Affiliation:
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Abstract

Herein, we discuss the use of a novel new substrate for III-Nitride epitaxy, Lithium Niobate. It is shown that Lithium Niobate (LN) has a smaller lattice mismatch to III-Nitrides than sapphire and can be used to control the polarity of III-Nitride films grown by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Results from initial growth studies are reported including using various nitridation/buffer conditions along with structural and optical characterization. Comparisons of data obtained from GaN and AlN buffer layers are offered and details of the film adhesion dependence on buffer layer conditions is presented. Lateral polarization heterostructures grown on periodically poled LN are also demonstrated. While work is still required to establish the limits of the methods proposed herein, these initial studies offer the promise for mixing III-Nitride semiconductor materials with lithium niobate allowing wide bandgap semiconductors to utilize the acoustic, pyroelectric/ferroelectric, electro-optic, and nonlinear optical properties of this new substrate material as well as the ability to engineer various polarization structures for future devices.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 743: Symposium L – GaN and Related Alloys , 2002 , L1.4
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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