The growth of self-assembled nanowires on stepped substrates is modeled by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. It is found that the energy barrier at the step edges has a great effect on the formation of nanoislands on stepped substrates. As the barrier is smaller than 0.1 eV, nanowires with high aspect ratios can be obtained. The width, aspe...
A series of transition films from amorphous to microcrystalline silicon was successfully prepared by very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(VHF-PECVD).Effects of gas pressure on the microstructure, photoelectric and transport properties of the films were investigated.The results indicate that increase of gas pressure improve ...
We report the latest results of the3C-SiC layer growth on Si(100) substrates by employing a novel home-made horizontal hot wall low pressure chemical vapour deposition(HWLPCVD) system with a rotating susceptor that was designed to support up to three50 mm-diameter wafers.3C-SiC film properties of the intra-wafer and the wafer-to-wafer, including cr...
This paper investigates the major structural parameters, such as crystal quality and strain state of (001)-oriented GaN thin films grown on sapphire substrates by metalorganic chemical vapour deposition, using an in-plane grazing incidence x-ray diffraction technique. The results are analysed and compared with a complementary out-of-plane x-ray dif...
Atomic configurations and formation energies of native defects in an unsaturated GaN nanowire grown along the [001] direction and with (100) lateral facets are studied using large-scale ab initio calculation. Cation and anion vacancies, antisites, and interstitials in the neutral charge state are all considered. The configurations of these defects ...
