Определение толщины зародышевого слоя AlN, сформированного на поверхности Al-=SUB=-2-=/SUB=-O-=SUB=-3-=/SUB=-(0001) в процессе нитридизации, методами РФЭС и ИК-спектроскопии

Abstract

The effect of different degrees of the sapphire surface nitridation process completion on the AlN buffer layer morphology has been studied. It was found that ~85% completion of the AlN crystalline phase formation promotes the growth of a two dimensional AlN buffer layer with a smooth surface morphology, regardless of the substrate temperature and ammonia flux. In contrast, during the AlN nucleation layer formation as a result of weak or excessive sapphire nitridation, a polycrystalline or three-dimensional AlN structures with a high density of inversion domains, respectively, were formed. Using independent methods of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy of surface polaritons, the thickness of the AlN nucleation layer was determined at ~85% degree of the nitridation process completion, which amounted to ~1 monolayer.