Abstract
β-Ga2O3 thin films have been successfully prepared on (0001) sapphire substrate by simple and effective sol-gel spin-coating method with post-annealing process (SSP). The effects of different preheating temperatures on the crystal quality and surface morphology of β-Ga2O3 films have been systematically investigated. The β-Ga2O3 thin films exhibit good crystallinity with (\(\bar 2\)01) preferred orientation and smooth surface morphology. The results showed that β-Ga2O3 thin films directly grown on (0001) sapphire by SSP method have comparable or better crystal quality compared with other epitaxial methods. The β-Ga2O3 thin films annealed at 1000 °C with the preheating temperature of 300 °C and above have smooth and crack-free surface morphology. The single-domain-growth mode of β-Ga2O3 thin film prepared on ~7° off-angled (0001) sapphire substrate toward <11\(\bar 2\)0> plane has been confirmed by SSP method, and the porous GaN layers have been obtained by the nitridation of the Sol-Gel grown β-Ga2O3 thin films for future applications in high-quality free-standing GaN substrates.
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β-Ga2O3 films with (\(\bar 2\)01) preferred orientation were prepared by the simple SSP method.
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Single-domain-growth mode of β-Ga2O3 film on ~7° off-angled sapphire was confirmed.
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Low-stress GaN porous template was obtained by the nitridation of the SSP β-Ga2O3 film.
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This work is supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFB0404201), State Key R&D Program of Jiangsu Province (BE2019103, BE2020004), Six-talent peaks project of Jiangsu province (XCL-107), Funds from the Solid-state Lighting and Energy-saving Electronics Collaborative Innovation Center and PAPD.
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Zhu, Y., Xiu, X., Cheng, F. et al. Growth and nitridation of β-Ga2O3 thin films by Sol-Gel spin-coating epitaxy with post-annealing process. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 100, 183–191 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-021-05629-4
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