InN films were grown on Si (111) substrates by radio-frequency plasma-excited molecular beam epitaxy. InN films highly oriented to the c-axis were obtained by optimizing growth conditions in the direct growth on Si. Growth of single crystalline InN films was realized on Si substrates with substrate nitridation for 3 min. On the other hands, when the substrate nitridation was lasted over 30 min, obtained InN films were polycrystalline due to the amorphous SiNx layer formed on a substrate surface. We also studied the local atomic structure in the single crystalline InN film using extended X-ray absorption fine structure measurements.

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Single crystalline InN films were grown on Si substrates by radio-frequency plasma-excited molecular beam epitaxy. Electrical property of InN/Si heterojunction was investigated. We obtained rectifying characteristics in n-InN/p-Si heterostructure for the first time. Forward I-V characteristics were affected by both the buffer layer deposition and the nitridation process. Strong photoluminescence peaks for both single crystalline and polycrystalline InN films grown on the Si substrates were observed at around 0.8 eV, which were smaller than the previous reported PL emission peak of around 1.9 eV.