Influence of annealing temperature of ZnO layer on synthesizing low dimensional GaN nanostructured materials

Institute of Semiconductor, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, P.R. China

Corresponding author: zhuanghuizhao@sdnu.edu.cn

Received: 21 November 2006
Accepted: 13 February 2007
Published online: 21 March 2007

Abstract

As-grown ZnO thin films are annealed in O₂ ambient for 15 min at the temperature of 700 °C, 800 °C, 900 °C and 1000 °C, respectively. Then the Ga₂O₃ thin films are deposited on ZnO/Si(111) substrates by sputtering Ga₂O₃ target in a JCK-500A radio frequency magnetron sputtering system. The low dimensional GaN nanostructured materials are obtained on Si substrates by ammoniating the Ga₂O₃/ZnO films at 950 °C for 15 min in a quartz tube. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer (FTIR) and photoluminescence (PL) are used to analyze the structure, morphology and optical properties of GaN nanostructured films. The results show that their properties are investigated particularly as a function of annealing temperature of ZnO layer. The mechanism is also briefly discussed.