Investigation on the structural properties of GaN films grown on La0.3Sr1.7AlTaO6 substrates

Abstract

Gallium nitride (GaN) films with excellent structural, electrical and optical properties have been epitaxially grown on La0.3Sr1.7AlTaO6 (LSAT) (111) substrates by radio-frequency molecular beam epitaxy at low temperature. The GaN films grown at 500 °C exhibits high crystalline quality with the (0002) and (10−12) full width at half maximum of 0.056° and 0.071°. There is a maximum of 1.1-nm-thick interfacial layer existing between the as-grown GaN and LSAT (111) substrate, and the as-grown about 300-nm-thick GaN films are almost fully relaxed only with a 0.0094% in-plane tensile strain. Hall and photoluminescence (PL) measurements also reveal outstanding electrical and optical properties of the as-grown GaN films on LSAT. This achievement brings the prospect for achieving highly-efficient GaN-based optoelectronic devices on LSAT (111) substrates.