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Effect of nanosized buffer layer and processing parameters on epitaxial growth of ZnO on LiAlO2 by chemical vapor deposition

Zinc Oxide (ZnO) has great potential for applications on ultraviolet/blue light emitting devices because of high exciton binding energy and low cost. This research use low lattice-mismatched £^-LiAlO2 (LAO) substrate to grow ZnO epitaxial films by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The first part of the present study deals with effect of processing parameters including temperature of Zinc procuser, sample position and growth temperature on ZnO epilayer. High the precuser temperature and long distance between sample and center of CVD furnace resulted in high growth rates. When growth rate was low, (10 0) ZnO (m-ZnO) was obtained and its crystallinity and luminescence property were poor. After increasing the growth rate to a certain extent, the surface of epilayer was flat and the crystallinity was improved. A further increase of growth rate resulted in a mixture of m-ZnO and c-plane in the ZnO epilayer. Based on the first part of study, the second part was focused on examining the effect of a nanosized buffer layer on inhibiting the nucleation of c-plane ZnO. Results showed that the nucleation of c-plane ZnO was indeed inhibited at low growth temperature. Finally, the crystallinity the optical property of the epilayer were improved by introducing
a thick and flat buffer layer of ~170 nm in thickness.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0907111-162128
Date07 September 2011
CreatorsLu, Chien-pin
ContributorsMitch M.C. Chou, Der-Shin Gan, Liu-wen Chang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0907111-162128
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