“…[12][13][14][15] Many groups have reported that hexagonal (4H or 6H) SiC was successfully grown on c-plane sapphire (0001) substrate using a thin AlN buffer layer deposited first by CVD, [12,14] by MBE, [14,16] or by HVPE. [16] A 6H-SiC polytype, grown on AlN/sapphire, is often determined by Raman spectroscopy, which demonstrates a low intensity peak at 765 -767 cm −1 as a shoulder of a predominant peak at 797 cm −1 (TO band) [12][13][14][15][16] while in other researches, the low intensity shoulder observed near the TO band may indicate that the SiC layer is composed of randomly disordered simple polytype domains such as 3C, 6H, 4H, 15R, etc.. [17,18] Thus, it can be concluded that Raman spectroscopy cannot distinguish between polytypes. Li et al [14] have identified the 4H-SiC by photoluminescence (PL) measurement, which presents a broad band at around 3.3 eV; however, the room-temperature energy bandgaps for 2H-SiC (about 3.3 eV) and for 4H-SiC (about 3.27 eV) [19] cannot be distinguished by the PL spectra.…”