Chin. Phys. Lett.  2009, Vol. 26 Issue (1): 016203    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/26/1/016203
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Shock-Assisted Superficial Hexagonal-to-Cubic Phase Transition in GaN/Sapphire Interface Induced by Using Ultra-violet Laser Lift-Off Techniques
CHEN Wei-Hua1, HU Xiao-Dong1, SHAN Xu-Dong2, KANG Xiang-Ning1, ZHOU Xu-Rong1, ZHANG Xiao-Min1, YU Tong-Jun1, YANG Zhi-Jian1, YOU Li-Ping2, XU
Ke1, ZHANG Guo-Yi1
1State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Department of Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 1008712Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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CHEN Wei-Hua, HU Xiao-Dong, SHAN Xu-Dong et al  2009 Chin. Phys. Lett. 26 016203
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Ultra-violet (KrF excimer laser,λ=248nm) laser lift-off (LLO) techniques have been operated to the GaN/sapphire structure to separate GaN from the sapphire substrate. Hexagonal to cubic phase transformation induced by the ultra-violet laser lift-off (UV-LLO) has been characterized by micro-Raman spectroscopy, micro-photoluminescence, along with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). HRTEM indicates that UV-LLO induced phase transition takes place above the LLO interface, without phase transition under the LLO interface. The formed cubic GaN often exists as nanocrystal grains attaching on the bulk hexagonal GaN. The half-loop-cluster-like UV-LLO interface indicates that the LLO-induced shock waves has generated and played an assistant role in the decomposition of the hexagonal GaN and in the formation of cubic GaN grains at the LLO surface.

Keywords: 62.50.Ef      64.70.Kg      68.37.Og     
Received: 27 November 2008      Published: 24 December 2008
PACS:  62.50.Ef (Shock wave effects in solids and liquids)  
  64.70.kg (Semiconductors)  
  68.37.Og (High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM))  
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