Effect of stoichiometric conditions and growth mode on threading dislocations filtering in AlN/c-Al2O3 templates grown by PA MBE

Abstract AlN/c-Al2O3 templates were grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy using migration enhanced epitaxy (MEE) and metal modulated epitaxy (MME) employed for consequent growing the nucleation and buffer layers (NL and BL). Structural quality and stress evolving were compared using in situ stress measurements, x-ray diffraction, transmission and atomic force microscopies. Optimization of MEE mode of NL led to a high degree of initial nuclei coalescence and the weak tensile stress (