Title
Dislocation baskets in thick In<inf>x</inf>Ga<inf>1-x</inf>N epilayers
Date Issued
14 September 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
Dislocation clusters have been observed in thick InxGa1-xN films with 0.07 ≤ x ≤ 0.12. The clusters resemble baskets with a higher indium content at their interior. Threading dislocations at the basket boundaries are of the misfit edge type, and their separation is consistent with misfit strain relaxation due to the difference in indium content between the baskets and the surrounding matrix. The interior of the base of the baskets exhibits no observable dislocations connecting the threading dislocations, and often no net displacements like those due to stacking faults. We argue that the origin of these threading dislocation arrays is associated with misfit dislocations at the basal plane that dissociate, forming stacking faults. And when the stacking faults form simultaneously satisfying the crystal symmetry, the sum of their translation vectors add up to a lattice vector, or equivalently to no change in the stacking sequence, which is consistent with our observations.
Volume
124
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
FÃsica atómica, molecular y quÃmica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85053275085
Source
Journal of Applied Physics
ISSN of the container
00218979
Sponsor(s)
This research was partially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, under Award No. DE-AR0000470, and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) under NSF CA No. EEC-1041895.
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