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Aluminum nitride-silicon carbide solid solutions grown by plasma-assisted, gas-source molecular beam epitaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

R. S. Kern ,
L. B. Rowland ,
S. Tanaka  and
R. F. Davis
R. S. Kern
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Box 7907, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907
L. B. Rowland
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Box 7907, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907
S. Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Box 7907, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907
R. F. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Box 7907, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907
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Solid solutions of aluminum nitride (AlN) and silicon carbide (SiC) have been grown at 900–1300 °C on vicinal α (6H)-SiC(0001) substrates by plasma-assisted, gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. Under specific processing conditions, films of (AlN)x(SiC) 1−x with 0.2 ≤ x ≤ 0.8, as determined by Auger electron spectrometry (AES), were deposited. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) was used to determine the crystalline quality, surface character, and epilayer polytype. Analysis of the resulting surfaces was also performed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) revealed that monocrystalline films with x ≥ 0.25 had the wurtzite (2H) crystal structure; however, films with x < 0.25 had the zincblende (3C) crystal structure.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 13 , Issue 7 , July 1998 , pp. 1816 - 1822
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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