Progress at Macquarie University’s low temperature nitride growth facility

K. S. A. Butcher, M. Wintrebert-Fouquet, P. P.-T. Chen, Z. Zheng, I. L. Guy, T. L. Tansley

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    Abstract

    The Low Temperature Nitride Growth Facility has been formed with the goal of developing novel growth and analysis techniques that may be suitable for the growth of group III nitride materials at temperatures below 650°C. The new growth facility includes three thin film growth reactors, a separate clean room facility, and a plethora of characterisation and device fabrication tools. This paper will outline the present status of the facility but will also highlight some of the recent work by the facilities staff. This includes, the development of an AFM based piezoelectric measurement system; the development of sub-growth temperature re-crystallisation techniques for the improvement of low temperature grown gallium nitride; progress in the development of indium nitride – a material pioneered in Australia. What is the band-gap of indium nitride? Is it 0.7 eV or is it 1.89 eV? And finally the development of ultra-high resistivity aluminium nitride layers grown at room temperature is reviewed.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 27th annual ANZIP condensed matter and materials meeting
    EditorsJohn Cashion, Trevor Finlayson, David Paganin, Andrew Smith, Gordon Troup
    Place of PublicationAustralia
    PublisherAustralian Institute of Physics
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)0959806466
    Publication statusPublished - 2003
    EventAnnual Australian and New Zealand Institutes of Physics Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting (27th : 2003) - Wagga Wagga, NSW
    Duration: 4 Feb 20037 Feb 2003

    Conference

    ConferenceAnnual Australian and New Zealand Institutes of Physics Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting (27th : 2003)
    CityWagga Wagga, NSW
    Period4/02/037/02/03

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