Sources of Epitaxial Growth-Induced Stacking Faults in 4H-SiC
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Successive reactive-ion etching and microphotoluminescence (PL) intensity mapping have been performed in order to investigate the sources of epitaxial growth-induced stacking faults (SFs) in thick 4H-SiC epilayers. Three kinds of SFs, i.e., 4SSFs, 3SSFs, and 2SSFs, have been identified in the samples. Two of these (3SSFs and 2SSFs) show similar nucleation behaviors, and their formation may be due to stress within the epitaxial layer. In contrast, 4SSFs nucleate at the epilayer–substrate interface and might be related to an unknown dislocation, which shows a rounded-shape etch pit in the substrate.
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