The Ammonothermal Crystal Growth of Gallium Nitride - A Technique on the Up Rise

Development of Cost-Effective Native Substrates for Gallium Nitride-Based Optoelectronic Devices via Ammonothermal Growth

Chemistry of Ammonothermal Synthesis

Ammonothermal synthesis is a method for synthesis and crystal growth suitable for a large range of chemically different materials, such as nitrides (e.g., GaN, AlN), amides (e.g., LiNH2, Zn(NH2)2), imides (e.g., Th(NH)2), ammoniates (e.g., Ga(NH3)3F3, [Al(NH3)6]I3 · NH3) and non-nitrogen compounds like hydroxides, hydrogen sulfides and polychalcogenides (e.g., NaOH, LiHS, CaS, Cs2Te5). In parti...

Green Method for Synthesizing Gallium Nitride Nanostructures at Low Temperature

Gallium nitride (GaN) nanostructures (NS) were synthesized using pulseddirect current plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PDC-PECVD) on quartzsubstrate at low temperature (600°C). Gallium metal (Ga) and nitrogen (N) plasma wereused as precursors. The morphology and structure of the grown GaN NS werecharacterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), transmissionelectro...

Controlled growth of gallium nitride single-crystal nanowires using a chemical vapor deposition method

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using gold nanoparticles as the catalyst to grow high-quality single-crystal gallium nitride nanowires was developed. This method enables control over several important aspects of the growth, including control of the nanowire diameter by using monodispersed gold clusters, control of the nanowire location via e-beam patterning of the catalyst sites, and control of...

Delta-phase manganese gallium on gallium nitride: a magnetically tunable spintronic system

Ferromagnetic delta-phase manganese gallium with Mn:Ga ratio between 1:1 to 1.5:1 is grown on wurtzite gallium nitride and scandium nitride substrates, using molecular beam epitaxy. The dependencies of growth properties, e.g. interface formation, surface reconstruction and crystalline quality, on substrate crystallographic structure and polarity are investigated. Results suggest that for growth...