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Investigation of Epitaxial GaN Films by Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
The current conduction in GaN is very topical and is the topic of a vast amount of research. By simultaneously mapping the topography and the current distribution, conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) has the potential to establish a correlation between topological features and localized current paths. In this study, this technique was applied to image the conduction properties of as-grown and post-growth chemically etched samples GaN epitaxial layers on a microscopic scale. Our results show that prismatic planes have a significantly higher conductivity than the surrounding areas of the sample surface. A large and stable local current was mainly observed from the walls of the etched pits, under forward and reverse bias of the metallized AFM tip/semiconductor junction.
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