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Defects induced by MeV H+ implantation for exfoliating of free-standing GaN film

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High-energy ion slicing is promising to produce the free-standing GaN films with thickness in the range of 10–20 µm, which would promote the mass applications of GaN substrates. In this paper, bulk GaN was implanted by 1.6 MeV H ions with the mean projected range Rp of around 17 μm and the thermal evolution of the H-induced defects was investigated in detail. Due to the migration-coalescence mechanism, the H-induced point defects gather to form the initial cavity defects which grow up via the Ostwald ripening mechanism. The cavity defect distribution is determined by the distributions of the implanted hydrogen and the implantation-induced damages. The area ratio of cavity defects in the center damage band of the 1.6 MeV sample was around 3.4%. Annealing at higher temperature enhances the defect migration and recovery. Larger H ion fluence or higher annealing temperature is required to accomplish the exfoliation of a free-standing GaN thick film.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFB0404100). We acknowledge that the high energy ion implantation was performed at the Ion Beam Center of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China

    Kai Huang, Tiangui You, Qi Jia, Ailun Yi, Shibin Zhang, Runchun Zhang, Jiajie Lin, Min Zhou, Wenjie Yu, Bo Zhang, Xin Ou & Xi Wang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Kai Huang, Qi Jia, Ailun Yi, Shibin Zhang, Runchun Zhang & Jiajie Lin

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Huang, K., You, T., Jia, Q. et al. Defects induced by MeV H+ implantation for exfoliating of free-standing GaN film. Appl. Phys. A 124, 118 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1508-y

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