Growth and characterization of AlN thin films on free-standing diamond substrates

Jian Huang; Yiben Xia; Linjun Wang; Jianmin Liu; Jinyong Xu; Guang Hu; Xuefeng Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.792638

11 March 2008 Growth and characterization of AlN thin films on free-standing diamond substrates

Jian Huang, Yiben Xia, Linjun Wang, Jianmin Liu, Jinyong Xu, Guang Hu, Xuefeng Zhu

Proceedings Volume 6984, Sixth International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications; 69841S (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.792638
Event: Sixth International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 2007, Shanghai, China

Abstract

The free-standing diamond films with a smooth and high quality nucleation side were prepared by hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) method. The nucleation side of the films had a mean surface roughness of 1.6nm.AlN films were then deposited on the nucleation side of the above diamond films by radio-frequency (RF) reactive magnetron sputtering method. The structure characteristics of AlN films deposited under different working pressure (p), sputtering power (w) and sputtering plasma composition were studied. The optimized parameters for the growth of high c-axis orientation AlN films were obtained: p=0.2Pa,w=600w and Ar/N₂=3:1.Surface morphologies of AlN films deposited under these parameter, tested by means of atomic force microscope (AFM), showed that the mean surface roughness was about 4.1nm.It also had a strong c-axis orientation structure investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD). All results above suggested that the AlN/diamond structure prepared in this work was ideal for the application of high frequency surface acoustic wave devices (SAW) device.

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Jian Huang, Yiben Xia, Linjun Wang, Jianmin Liu, Jinyong Xu, Guang Hu, and Xuefeng Zhu "Growth and characterization of AlN thin films on free-standing diamond substrates", Proc. SPIE 6984, Sixth International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 69841S (11 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.792638

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