Characterization of pit formation in III-nitrides grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

H. K. Cho; J. Y. Lee; G. M. Yang

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Characterization of pit formation in III-nitrides grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

H. K. Cho, J. Y. Lee, G. M. Yang

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Pit formation in III-nitride heterostructures such as InGaN/GaN and AlGaN/GaN grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition was characterized by transmission electron microscopy. The pit formation related with V defects has been reported in the InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well with high In composition [Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 215 (2001)]. In this letter, we found that the mechanism of pit formation strongly depends on the indium and aluminum compositions in In_xGa_1-xN and Al_xGa_1-xN layers, respectively. By increasing the indium composition, the origin of pits is changed from the vertex of threading dislocations to the stacking mismatch boundaries induced by stacking faults and the three-dimensional island growth at the initial stage due to the large lattice mismatch. By increasing the aluminum composition, the origin of the pits also varied from the surface undulation due to the elastic misfit strain to the vertex of threading dislocations. In addition, several inversion domains observed in III nitrides result in pit formation in the surface of films.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1370-1372
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	80
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1454215
State	Published - 25 Feb 2002
Externally published	Yes

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