ISSN:
1662-9752
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The aim of the present work is to grow 3C-SiC on (0001) 6H-SiC seeds using thePhysical Vapour Transport (PVT) method and to study the electrical and structural properties of the grown material. Photoluminescence (PL)-mappings reveal that the overgrown layer consists predominantly of the 3C-SiC polytype and capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements result in a net nitrogen donor concentration of 1x1016cm-3. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)observations also confirm that the overgrown layer is of the 3C-SiC polytype having the cubic [111] crystallographic direction parallel to the c-axis of the 6H-SiC substrate. In some cases, twin crystals of 3C-SiC are formed immediately after the interface and, in a few cases, small 6H-SiC inclusions are observed in the cubic film having the same orientation as the substrate. The film near the substrate/overgrown interface shows a high density of defects such as dislocations and stacking faults (SF’s), which propagate into the overgrown layer. Finally although there is a rapid decrease of the defect density within the first 60 µm from the interface, the SF density remains almost constant within the last 100 µm below the surface
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/02/10/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FMSF.483-485.319.pdf
