Volume 213, Issue 8 pp. 2051-2055
Original Paper

Influence of substrate misorientation on the surface morphology of homoepitaxial diamond (111) films

Norio Tokuda

Corresponding Author

Norio Tokuda

Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920 1192 Japan

Advanced Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 8568 Japan

Corresponding author: e-mail [email protected], Phone/Fax: +81 76 234 4875

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Masahiko Ogura

Masahiko Ogura

Advanced Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 8568 Japan

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Tsubasa Matsumoto

Tsubasa Matsumoto

Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920 1192 Japan

Advanced Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 8568 Japan

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Satoshi Yamasaki

Satoshi Yamasaki

Advanced Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 8568 Japan

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Takao Inokuma

Takao Inokuma

Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920 1192 Japan

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First published: 18 March 2016
Citations: 12

Abstract

We studied the influence of misorientation angles and directions of single crystal diamond (111) substrates on the surface morphology of homoepitaxial diamond (111) films grown by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) in the anisotropic lateral growth mode. Hillocks were completely suppressed on the diamond (111) films grown by CVD on the substrates with misorientation angles of 2° and 4°, while hillocks were formed on the CVD-grown diamond (111) films on the substrates with misorientation angles of 0° and 1°. In addition, an atomically flat diamond (111) film was grown on the substrate with a misorientation angle of 2° toward the urn:x-wiley:14381656:media:pssa201600082:pssa201600082-math-0007 direction, while rough films were grown on the substrate with a misorientation angle of 2° toward the urn:x-wiley:14381656:media:pssa201600082:pssa201600082-math-0008 direction.

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