We have structurally evaluated β-Ga2O3 crystals grown by edge-defined film-fed growth process using etch pitting, focused ion beam scanning ion microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and related techniques. We found three types of defects: arrays of edge dislocations corresponding to etch pit arrays on
-oriented wafers, platelike nanopipes corresponding to etch pits revealed on the (010)-oriented wafers, and twins including twin lamellae.
Herein,
single-domain κ-Ga2O3 thin
films were grown on FZ-grown ε-GaFeO3 substrates
via a step-flow growth mode. The ε-GaFeO3 possessing
the same crystal structure and similar lattice parameters as those
of the orthorhombic κ-Ga2O3 facilitated
the growth of κ-Ga2O3 thin films, as observed
by the X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Furthermore, the surface
morphologies of the κ-Ga2O3 thin films
exhibited a step–terrace and atomically flat structure. XRD
φ-scan and transmission electron microscopy with selected area
electron diffraction revealed that there is no occurrence of in-plane
rotational domains in the κ-Ga2O3 thin
films on ε-GaFeO3 substrates and that the κ-Ga2O3 thin film comprised a single domain. TEM analysis
revealed that there were no clear dislocations in the observation
area. Moreover, high-resolution TEM observation showed that the atomic
arrangements of the film and the substrate were continuous without
the presence of an intermediate layer along the growth direction and
were well-aligned in the in-plane direction.
We demonstrated the growth of a single-domain κ-Ga2O3 thin film on ε-GaFeO3 by using an organic-free compound as a precursor for mist chemical vapor deposition. X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that an 87-nm-thick κ-Ga2O3 thin film was grown almost coherently with slight lattice relaxation. The surface morphology of the κ-Ga2O3 thin film exhibited a step-terrace structure without island growth. Furthermore, plan-view TEM observations revealed that the κ-Ga2O3 thin film grown on ε-GaFeO3 had a single domain, whereas the previously reported κ-Ga2O3 thin film grown on AlN template had a domain structure.
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