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Published on: July 3, 2015
Spontaneous oscillations and waves during chemical vapor deposition of InN
F Jiang1, A Munkholm, R-V Wang
1Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Abstract:
We report observations of self-sustaining spatiotemporal chemical oscillations during metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of InN onto GaN. Under constant supply of vapor precursors trimethylindium and NH3, the condensed-phase cycles between crystalline islands of InN and elemental In droplets. Propagating fronts between regions of InN and In occur with linear, circular, and spiral geometries. The results are described by a model in which the nitrogen activity produced by surface-catalyzed NH3 decomposition varies with the exposed surface areas of GaN, InN, and In.
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