Affiliation:
1. Chinese Academy of Sciences
2. Dongguan Tianyu Semiconductor, Inc.
Abstract
A kind of broken carrot defects which are not parallel to the step flow direction are observed on 4H-SiC epilayer surfaces. We use the molten KOH and polishing methods to reveal the structure and source of the broken carrots. It is shown that the broken carrot defects still contain the prismatic stacking fault (SF) and basal plane SF and originate from threading screw dislocation on the substrate. The presence of other substrate threading dislocation can disturb the expansion of prismatic SF. This leads to the appearance of the broken carrot.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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