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Growth of Beta-Phase Gallium Oxide Thin Films on Off-Axis Sapphire Substrates by Mist Chemical Vapor Deposition
Jae-Hyeok Lim, Tae-Yong Park, Yun-Ji Shin, Seong-Min Jeong, Chang-Mo Kang, Si-Young Bae
J Electr Electron Mater 2026;39(3):302-308.
Published online May 1, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4313/JEEM.2026.39.3.10
β-Ga2O3 is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor promising for high-power electronic applications; however, heteroepitaxial growth on sapphire is challenging lattice and symmetry mismatch. In this study, β-Ga2O3 thin films were grown on C-plane sapphire substrates with various off-axis angles (0–12°) using mist-CVD, and the influence of substrate miscut on structural and optical properties was investigated. All films grown at 900°C exhibited (-201) oriented β phase. The crystal quality was strongly dependent on the off-axis angle, with intermediate off-axis angles (Δa = 6–8°) showing the narrowest rocking curve width. Off-axis substrates promoted step-aligned growth behavior compared to on-axis growth. Optical measurements revealed enhanced transmittance and wider bandgap values (4.92–4.95 eV) for off-axis samples compared to the on-axis film (4.69 eV). The findings provide practical guidelines for optimizing heteroepitaxial β-Ga2O3 growth on low-cost sapphire substrates for high-performance device applications.
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Growth of Gallium Oxide Thin Film on c-, a-, m-, r-Plane Sapphire Substrates Using Mist Chemical Vapor Deposition System
Gi-ryeo Seong, Seong-ho Cho, Kyoung-ho Kim, Yun-ji Shin, Seong-min Jeong, Tae-gyu Kim, Si-young Bae
J Electr Electron Mater 2023;36(1):74-80.   Published online January 1, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4313/JKEM.2023.36.1.12
Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) thin films were grown on c-, a-, m-, r-plane sapphire substrates using a mist chemical vapor deposition system. Various growth temperature range of 400~600℃ was applied for Ga2O3 thin film deposition. Then, several structural properties were characterized such as film thickness, crystal phase, lattice orientation, surface roughness, and optical bandgap. Under the certain growth temperature of 500℃, all grown Ga2O3 featured rhombohedral crystal structures and well-aligned preferred orientation to sapphire substrate. The films grown on c-and r-plane sapphire substrates, showed low surface roughness and large optical bandgap compared to those on a-and m-plane substrates. Therefore, various sapphire orientation can be potentially applicable for future Ga2O3-based electronics applications.
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The Variation of Sapphire Substrate Shape of Micro LED Array to Increasing of Light Intensity and Contrast Ratio
Yu-jung Cha, Joon Seop Kwak
J Electr Electron Mater 2021;34(1):8-15.   Published online January 1, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4313/JKEM.2021.34.1.2
Micro-LEDs can be applied to various parts of a product. However, it has disadvantages compared to general LEDs in large displays such as low efficiency, intensity, and contrast ratio, among others, owing to their short history of study. The simulations were carried out using ray-tracing software to investigate the change in light intensity and light distribution according to pattern shapes on the sapphire substrate of the flip-chip micro-LED (FC μ-LED) array. Three patterns-concave square patterns, convex square patterns, and Ag coated convex patterns-which existed on the opposite side of FC μ-LEDs (115 ㎛ × 115 ㎛) array, were applied. The intensity of FC μ-LEDs on the center of the receivers depends on the pattern depth with shape. The concave square patterns having FC μ-LEDs arrays show that decreasing intensity as the patterns depth. On the contrary, the convex square patterns having FC μ-LEDs arrays shows that increasing intensity as the patterns depth. In addition, the highest intensity shows that FC μ-LEDs having Ag-coated convex patterns on the opposite side of sapphire lead to a reduction in light crosstalk owing to the Ag film.
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Crystalline Properties of GaN Layers Grown on PSS and AlN Buffered PSS by HVPE Method
Won Jun Lee, Mi Seon Park, Won Jae Lee, Il Su Kim, Young Jun Choi, Hae Yong Lee
J Electr Electron Mater 2018;31(6):386-391.   Published online September 1, 2018
An epitaxial GaN layer was grown on a cone-shape-patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) (Sample A) and an AlN-buffered PSS (Sample B) with two growth steps under the same process conditions by employing the hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) method. We have investigated the characteristics of the GaN layer grown on two kinds of substrates at each growth step. The cross-sectional SEM image of the GaN layer grown on the two types of substrates showed growth states of GaN layers formed during the 1st and 2nd growth steps with different growth durations. Dislocation density was obtained by calculation using the FWHM value of the rocking curve for (002) and (102). Sample A showed 2.62+08E and 6.66+08E and sample B exhibited 5.74+07E and 1.65+08E for two different planes. The red shift was observed is photoluminescence (PL) analysis and Raman spectroscopy results. GaN layers grown on AlN-buffered PSS exhibited better optical and crystallographic properties than GaN layers grown on PSS.
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Regular Paper : A Study on the Optical Characteristics of Multi-Layer Touch Panel Structure on Sapphire Glass
Young Hoon Kwak, Seong Cheol Moon, Ji Seon Lee, Seong Eui Lee
J Electr Electron Mater 2016;29(3):168-174.   Published online March 1, 2016
A conductive oxide-based sapphire glass indium tin oxide/metal electrode and the optical coating, through patterning process was studied in excellent optical properties and integrated touch panel has a high strength. Indium tin oxide conductive oxides of the sapphire glass to 0.3 A at DC magnetron sputtering method of 10 min, gas flow Ar 10 Sccm Ar, O2 1.0 Sccm the formation conditions of the thin film after annealing at 550℃ for 30min was achieved through a 86% transmittance. In addition, the coating 130 nm hollow silica sol-gel was to improve the optical transmittance of the indium tin oxide to 91%. For the measurement by the modeling hollow silica sol by Macleod simulation and calculated the average values of silica part to the presence or absence in analogy to actual. Refractive index value and the actual value of the material on the simulation the transmittance difference is it does not completely match the air region similar to the actual value (transmission) could be confirmed that the measurement is set to a value of between 5 nm and 10 nm
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Recently many studies being carried out to increase the light efficiency of LED. The external quantum efficiency of LED, generally the light efficiency, is determined by the internal quantum efficiency and the light extraction efficiency. The internal quantum efficiency of LED was already reached to more than 90%, but the light extraction efficiency is still insufficient compared with the internal quantum efficiency because the total internal reflection is generated in the interface between the LED chip and air. Thus, we studied about flip chip LED with PSS and performed the optical simulation which find more optimized PSS for flip chip LED to increase the light extraction efficiency. Decreasing of the total internal reflection and effect of diffused reflection according to PSS improved the light extraction efficiency. To get more higher the efficiency, we simulated flip chip with PSS that the parameters are arrangement, edge spacing, radius, height and shape of PSS.
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Thin Films and Sensors : A Study on the Fabrication and Electrical Characteristics of Hydraulic Pressure Sensors by Using Ceramics Materials
Sung Hyun Park, Eun Sup Kim, Jung Kyun Jung
J Electr Electron Mater 2015;28(6):384-389.   Published online June 1, 2015
In this paper, we fabricated ceramic body and sapphire wafer in order to develop a hydraulic pressure sensor with high sensitivity and high temperature stability. The sapphire wafer was adopted with a membrane of capacitance ceramic pressure sensor. The capacitance value of the sensor for the finite element analysis(FEM) showed a linear pressure characteristics. Membrane was processed with a diameter of 32.4 ㎜ and a thickness of 1 ㎜ by using alumina powders. Ceramic body was processed with a diameter 32.4 ㎜ and a thickness 5 ㎜. The capacitance pressure sensor was made with high heat treatment of the ceramic body and the sapphire wafer. Initially capacitance of the pressure sensor was 50 pF and a capacitance of 110 pF was measured from 5 bar pressure. Output voltage of 5 V was appeared at 5 bar pressure.
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Regular Paper : GaN Base Blue LED on Patterned Sapphire Substrate by Wet Etching
Do Hyung Kim, Yong Gon Yi, Soon Jae Yu
J Electr Electron Mater 2011;24(1):7-11.   Published online January 1, 2011
Sapphire substrate was patterned by a selective chemical wet etching technique, and GaN/InGaN structures were grown on this substrate by MOVPE (Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy). The surface of grown GaN on patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) has good morphology and uniformity. The patterned sapphire substrate LED showed better light output than conventional LED that improvement 50%. We think these results come from enhancement of internal quantum efficiency by decrease of threading dislocation and increase of light extraction efficiency. Also these LED showed more uniform emission distribution in angle than conventional LED.
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