Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

Characteriation Of Bulk, Polycrystalline Indium Nitride Grown Of Subatmospheric Pressures, Jeffrey Dyck, Kathleen Kash, Kwieseon Kim, Walter Lambrecht, Cliff Hayman, Alberto Argoitia, Michael Grossner, Willie Zhou, John Angus

Jeffrey Dyck

Polycrystalline, wurtzitic indium nitride was synthesized by saturating indium metal with atomic nitrogen from a microwave plasma source. Plasma synthesis avoids the high equilibrium pressures required when molecular nitrogen is used as the nitrogen source. Two types of growth were observed: 1) small amounts of indium nitride crystallized from the melt during cooling and 2) hexagonal platelets formed adjacent to the In metal source on the crucible sides. The mechanism of this latter growth is not established, but may involve transport of indium as a liquid film. The crystals were characterized by electron diffraction, X-ray diffraction, elemental analysis, scanning electron …