“…These techniques ensure the parameters compatibility of sapphire lattice and subsequent layers ( a Sap = 4.76 Å, CTE Sap = 7.0 × 10 −6 K −1 , a AlN/GaN = 3.11Å/3.18 Å, CTE AlN = 4.2 × 10 −6 K −1 ) . The sapphire nitridation process, as a mandatory initial stage in the III‐nitrides growth, consists in exposing the heated sapphire substrate to a flux of active nitrogen …”