Aluminum Nitride for Surface Acoustic Waves.

Abstract

Aluminum nitride films of single crystal quality have been grown upon single crystal R-plane sapphire substrates. It was demonstrated that AlN could also be grown upon another AlN film that had been polished. In this manner thick films of 10 micrometers thickness or greater could be obtained. Scanning electron microscopy was used to evaluate the as-grown film morphology and show the micro-structure orientation coherence. The surface acoustic wave properties of the film were measured out to a film thickness to wavelength ratio of 0.75.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA002138

Entities

People

  • Kenneth M. Lakin

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Nitrides
  • Crystals
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Films
  • Microscopy
  • Nitrides
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Single Crystals
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Thick Films
  • Thickness
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Semiconductor Device Technology
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene