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ArticleACS omega2023

Monitoring of the Initial Stages of Diamond Growth on Aluminum Nitride Using In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry.

William Leigh, Soumen Mandal, Jerome A Cuenca, David Wallis, Alexander M Hinz, Rachel A Oliver, Evan L H Thomas, Oliver Williams

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Article in ACS omega, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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8 authors.

William LeighSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0259-8205
Soumen MandalSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.
Jerome A CuencaSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1370-1167
David WallisSchool of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K.
Alexander M HinzDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-0086
Rachel A OliverDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-3993
Evan L H ThomasSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.
Oliver WilliamsSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high thermal conductivity of polycrystalline diamond makes it ideally suited for thermal management solutions for gallium nitride (GaN) devices, with a diamond layer grown on an aluminum nitride (AlN) interlayer atop the GaN stack. However, this application is limited by the thermal barrier at the interface between diamond and substrate, which has been associated with the transition region formed in the initial phases of growth. In this work, in situ spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) is employed to monitor early-stage microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition diamond growth on AlN. An optical model was developed from ex situ spectra and applied to spectra taken in situ during growth. Coalescence of separate islands into a single film was marked by a reduction in bulk void fraction prior to a spike in sp

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