Abstract

Thermal annealing at high temperatures of nonpolar (101¯0) m-plane AlN layers directly sputtered on m-plane sapphire was investigated. The crystallinity of the layers increased with increasing annealing temperature. The full-width at half maximum of the symmetric (101¯0) X-ray rocking curves along [0001]/[112¯0]AlN decreased from about 3.5/2.0° to 0.24/0.19°. The density of basal stacking faults of the annealed layers was found to decrease from ∼1 × 105 to ∼5 × 103 cm−1. The annealed layers had a larger optical bandgap energy than the as-sputtered layers due to their better crystallinity and structural order.

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