Current Applied Physics, Vol.17, No.8, 1142-1147, 2017
Phase separation suppression in InxGa1-xN on a Si substrate using an indium modulation technique
A high quality, single phase InGaN film is fabricated on a GaN/Si (111) substrate by optimizing the pulse patterned In supply with a plasma-assisted MBE technique. Compositional phase separation in InGaN is considerably suppressed. The optical and structural properties of the single phase InGaN epitaxial film are consistently confirmed by atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence measurements. We propose a growth mechanism for single phase InGaN in terms of optimal incorporation and surface migration of In atoms. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.