Fabrication and optical characterization of GaN waveguides on (-201)-oriented β - Ga2O3

Kashif M. Awan, Mufasila M. Muhammad, Madhavi Sivan, Spencer Bonca, Iman S. Roqan, Ksenia Dolgaleva*

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Abstract

Gallium nitride (GaN), a wide-bandgap III-V semiconductor material with a bandgap wavelength λg = 366 nm (for Wurtzite GaN) and transparency window covering the visible spectrum, has a large number of applications for photonics and optoelectronics. However, the optical quality of this material suffers from growth imperfections due to the lack of a suitable substrate. Recent studies have shown that GaN grown on (-201) β - Ga2O3 (gallium oxide) has better lattice matching and hence superior optical quality as compared to GaN grown traditionally on Al2O3 (sapphire). In this work, we report on the fabrication of GaN waveguides on Ga2O3 substrate, followed by a wet-etch process aimed at the reduction of waveguide surface roughness and improvement of side-wall verticality in these waveguides. The propagation loss in the resulting waveguides has been experimentally determined to be 7.5 dB/cm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)88-96
Number of pages9
JournalOPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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