Microscopic investigations of aluminum nitride thin films grown by low-temperature reactive sputtering

作者: Q.X. Guo , M. Yoshitugu , T. Tanaka , M. Nishio , H. Ogawa

DOI: 10.1016/J.TSF.2004.12.014

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摘要: Aluminum nitride (AlN) films were grown on sapphire substrates by radio frequency magnetron sputtering in plasma containing a mixture of argon and nitrogen, using pure aluminum target. Surface morphology dependence the AlN growth conditions such as substrate temperature nitrogen concentration was investigated. c-axis preferred wurtzite film with surface roughness small 2.9 nm obtained at 100 °C 20%. The increased increasing concentration. correlation between discussed.

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