High-phase-purity zinc-blende InN on r -plane sapphire substrate with controlled nitridation pretreatment

Ching Lien Hsiao; Ting Wei Liu; Chien Ting Wu; Hsu Cheng Hsu; Geng Ming Hsu; Li Chyong Chen; Wen Yu Shiao; C. C. Yang; Andreas Gällström; Per Olof Holtz; Chia Chun Chen; Kuei Hsien Chen

doi:10.1063/1.2898214

High-phase-purity zinc-blende InN on r -plane sapphire substrate with controlled nitridation pretreatment

Ching Lien Hsiao^*
, Ting Wei Liu
, Chien Ting Wu
, Hsu Cheng Hsu
, Geng Ming Hsu
, Li Chyong Chen
, Wen Yu Shiao
, C. C. Yang
, Andreas Gällström
, Per Olof Holtz
, Chia Chun Chen
, Kuei Hsien Chen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Chemistry

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High-phase-purity zinc-blende (zb) InN thin film has been grown by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy on r -plane sapphire substrate pretreated with nitridation. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that the phase of the InN films changes from wurtzite (w) InN to a mixture of w-InN and zb-InN, to zb-InN with increasing nitridation time. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy reveals an ultrathin crystallized interlayer produced by substrate nitridation, which plays an important role in controlling the InN phase. Photoluminescence emission of zb-InN measured at 20 K shows a peak at a very low energy, 0.636 eV, and an absorption edge at ∼0.62 eV is observed at 2 K, which is the lowest bandgap reported to date among the III-nitride semiconductors.

Original language	English
Article number	111914
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	92
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2898214
Publication status	Published - 2008

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