1. Thermal conductivity enhancement of aluminum scandium nitride grown by molecular beam epitaxy
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Gustavo A. Alvarez, Joseph Casamento, Len van Deurzen, Md Irfan Khan, Kamruzzaman Khan, Eugene Jeong, Elaheh Ahmadi, Huili Grace Xing, Debdeep Jena, and Zhiting Tian
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Cross-plane thermal conductivity ,frequency domain thermoreflectance ,molecular beam epitaxy ,lattice mismatch ,Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials ,TA401-492 - Abstract
Aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) has been receiving increasing interest for radio frequency microelectromechanical systems because of their higher achievable bandwidths owing to the larger piezoelectric response of AlScN compared to AlN. However, alloying scandium (Sc) with aluminum nitride (AlN) significantly lowers the thermal conductivity of AlScN due to phonon alloy scattering. Self-heating in AlScN devices potentially limits power handling, constrains the maximum transmission rate, and ultimately leads to thermal failure. We grew plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE) AlScN on AlN-Al2O3 and GaN-Al2O3 substrates, and compared the cross-plane thermal conductivity to current work on AlScN grown on Si substrates.
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- 2023
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