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Program / MRS Symposium E
GaN, AlN, InN, and Their Alloys
 
Chairs
Christian Wetzel     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bernard Gil     Université Montpellier II
Michael Manfra     Bell Laboratories
Masaaki Kuzuhara     NEC Corporation

Symposium Support
AIXTRON AG
Cree, Inc.
Gatan, Inc.
Lucent Technologies
Riber, Inc.
SVT Associates, Inc.

Proceedings to be published in both book form and online
(see ONLINE PUBLICATIONS at www.mrs.org)
as volume 831
of the Materials Research Society
Symposium Proceedings Series.


* Invited paper

SESSION E1: Lasers and Light-Emitting Diodes I
Chairs: Masaaki Kuzuhara and Christian Wetzel
Monday Morning, November 29, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *E1.1
Structural Defects related issues of GaN-based Laser Diodes Shigetaka Tomiya1, Motonobu Takeya2, Goto Shu2 and Masao Ikeda2; 1Materials Analysis Center, Sony EMCS, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Shiroishi Laser Center, Sony MSNC DSC, Shiroishi, Miyagi, Japan.

9:00 AM E1.2
Latest Developments in Blue-Violet Laser Diodes Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Valerie Bousquet, Matthias Kauer, Katherine Johnson, Stewart Edouard Hooper and Jonathan Heffernan; Advanced Optoelectronic Devices, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford, United Kingdom.

9:15 AM E1.3
265 nm Deep Ultraviolet Emitters. Wenhong Sun, Vinod Adivarahan, Shuai Wu, Ajay Sattu, Ashay Chitnis, Maxim Shatalov and M. Asif Khan; Electrical Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

9:30 AM E1.4
Growth, Characterization, and Application of High Power III-Nitride Ultraviolet Emitters. Zaiyuan Ren1, Seong-ran Jeon1, Maria Gherasimova1, George Cui1, Jung Han1, Hongbo Peng2, Y.K. Song2, Arto Nurmikko2, Ling Zhou3, Michael Krames3 and Werner Goetz3; 1Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; 2Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; 3Lumileds, San Jose, California.

9:45 AM E1.5
Multiple-Quantum-Well Design for 280nm Light Emitting Diodes Jianping Zhang1, Xuhong Hu1, Jianyu Deng1, Alex Lunev1, Thomas Katona1, Yuiry Bilenko1, Remis Gaska1, Asif Khan2 and Michael Shur3; 1Sensor Electronic Technology, InC, Columbia, South Carolina; 2Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina; 3Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *E1.6
Fabrication of LED Based on III-V Nitride and its Applications. Naoki Shibata, Optoelectronics, Technical Div., Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Nakashima-gun, Japan.

11:00 AM E1.7
Junction Temperature Measurements in Deep-UV Light-Emitting Diodes. Yangang Xi1, Jingqun Xi1, Thomas Gessmann2, Jay M. Shayh2, JongKyu Kim2, E. Fred Schubert1,2, Arthur J. Fischer3, Mary H. Crawford3, Katherine H. A. Bogart3 and Andrew A. Allerman3; 1Physics, R.P.I., Troy, New York; 2Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 3Semiconductor Material and Device Sciences, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

11:15 AM E1.8
Effect of GaN Surface Treatment on Optoelectonic Properties of GaN Layers and Light Emitting Devices. James Grandusky, Muhammad Jamil and Fatemeh Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik; School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, New York.

11:30 AM E1.9
Moth Eye Light-Emitting Diode Hideki Kasugai1, Yasuto Miyake1, Akira Honshio1, Takeshi Kawashima1, Kazuyoshi Iida1, Motoaki Iwaya1, Satoshi Kamiyama1, Hiroshi Amano1, Isamu Akasaki1, Hiroyuki Kinoshita2 and Hiromu Shiomi2; 1Faculty of Science and Technology, 21st-Century COE Program "Nano Factory", Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan; 2SiXON Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.

11:45 AM E1.10
MOCVD Growth of AlGaN for Short-Wavelength UV LEDs Russell D. Dupuis, Uttiya Chowdhury, Peng Li, Jae_Boum Limb, Jae-Hyun Ryou, Theodore Chung and Dongwon Yoo; School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

SESSION E2: Growth
Chairs: Martin Albrecht and Akihiko Yoshikawa
Monday Afternoon, November 29, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *E2.1
Growth of Nonpolar GaN(1100) Films and Heterostructures by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Oliver Brandt, Yue Jun Sun and Klaus H. Ploog; Paul-Drude-Institut fuer Festkoerperelektronik, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

2:00 PM E2.2
On the dynamics of InGaN dot formation by RF-MBE growth. Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Sven Einfeldt, Stephan Figge, Carsten Kruse, Claudia Roder and Detlef Hommel; Inst. of Solid State Physics, Univ. of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

2:15 PM E2.3
How do InGaN Quantum Dots Form During MOVPE Growth? Sven Einfeldt, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Claudia Roder, Andreas Tausendfreund, Stephan Figge and Detlef Hommel; Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

2:30 PM E2.4
Growth and Characterization of Self-organized GaN Quantum Dots on Miscut (0001) Sapphire Substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Tao Xu1, Adrian Williams1, Theodore D. Moustakas1, Lin Zhou2 and David J Smith2; 1ECE, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Physics and Astronomy and Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

2:45 PM E2.5
Growth and Properties of Nonpolar a-plane InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Wells Grown on Reduced-Defect Lateral Epitaxially Overgrown a-plane GaN. Arpan Chakraborty1, Stacia Keller1, Benjamin A. Haskell2, Feng Wu2, Patrick Waltereit2, Salka Keller1, James S. Speck2, Steven P. DenBaars2,1, Shuji Nakamura2 and Umesh K. Mishra1; 1ECE, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *E2.6
Status of Bulk AlN Crystal Growth and Substrate Preparation: the Native Nitride Alternative. Leo J. Schowalter1,2, Jon B. Whitlock1, Ken E. Morgan1, Sandra B. Schujman1, Keith R. Evans1 and Glen A. Slack1; 1Crystal IS, Inc., Watervliet, New York; 2Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

4:00 PM E2.7
Growth and Characterization of Ammomothermal GaN Crystals Grown on HVPE Templates. Michael J. Callahan1, Kelly Rakes1, David Bliss1 and Buguo Wang2; 1SNHC, Air Force Research Lab, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts; 2Solid State Scientific, Nashua, New Hampshire.

4:15 PM E2.8
Ammonothermal Growth of GaN Utilizing Negative Temperature Dependence of Solubility in Basic Ammonia. Tadao Hashimoto, Kenji Fujito, Feng Wu, Benjamin A. Haskell, Paul T. Fini, James S. Speck and Shuji Nakamura; ERATO/JST UCSB group, Santa Barbara, California.

4:30 PM E2.9
Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Non-polar III-Nitride Films over A-plane SiC Substrates Jiawei Li, Zheng Gong, Changqing Chen, Adivarahan Vinod, Mikhail Gaevski, Edmundas Kuokstis, Maxim Shatalov, Ying Gao, Zehong Zhang, Arul Arjunan, T S Sudarshan, Jinwei Yang and M Asif Khan; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

4:45 PM E2.10
Hydrogen Interactions with the Nitrogen Vacancy in Wurtzite GaN. Alan F Wright, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SESSION E3: Poster Session
Chairs: Bernard Gil and Christian Wetzel
Monday Evening, November 29, 2004
8:00 PM
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

E3.1
Sublimation Growth of Aluminum Nitride-Silicon Carbide Alloy Crystals on SiC (0001) Substrates. Zheng Gu1, James H. Edgar1, Edward A. Payzant2, Harry M. Meyer2, Larry R. Walker2, R. Liu3, A. Sarua4 and Martin Kuball4; 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; 2High Temperature Materials Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 4H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.

E3.2
Determination of Surface Barrier Height and Surface State Density in GaN Film Grown on Sapphire Substrate. Seong Eun Park1, Joseph J. Kopanski1, Youn-Seon Kang2, Lawrence H. Robins2 and Hyun-Keel Shin3; 1Semiconductor Electronics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 2Ceramic Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 3Gwangju Techno Park, LED/LD Packaging Service Center, 958-3 Daechon-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-706, South Korea.

E3.3
Excess Carrier Lifetime Measurements for GaN on Sapphire Substrates with Various Doping Concentrations and Surface Conditions by the Microwave Photoconductivity Decay Method. Masashi Kato, Hideki Watanabe, Masaya Ichimura and Eisuke Arai; Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Naogya, Japan.

E3.4
Thermal Stability of Boride-based Ohmic and Schottky Contacts on GaN. Rohit Khanna1, C.J. Kao2, Ivan Kravchenko4, F. Ren3, G. C. Chi2 and Stephen Pearton1; 1MSE, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 2Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan; 3Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 4Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

E3.5
Fabrication and Characterization of GaN Nanopillar Arrays. Yadong Wang1, Tripathy Sudhiranjan2, Soo Jin Chua1,2 and Clifton G.Fonstad1,3; 1Singapore-MIT Alliance, E4-04-10, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore, Singapore; 2Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602, Singapore, Singapore; 3Dept of Electrical and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 02139, Boston, Massachusetts.

E3.6
The composition dependence of the optical properties of InN-rich InGaN grown by MBE Robert W. Martin1, Sergi Hernandez1, Paul R. Edwards1, Ke Wang1, Isabel Fernandez-Torrente1, Masahito Kurouchi2, Yasushi Nanishi2 and Kevin P. O'Donnell2; 1Physics Department, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2Department of Photonics, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga 525-8577, Japan.

E3.7
Unusual properties of the red and green luminescence bands in Ga-rich GaN Michael A. Reshchikov1,2 and Hadis Morkoc2,1; 1Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; 2Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

E3.8
Blue-violet Emission from N+ Implanted ZnO:Ga Films Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition. Yahya Ibragimovich Alivov1, Michael A. Reshchikov1, Seydi Dogan1, David Look1, Vladimir Zinenko1, Yurii Agafonov1, Badavi M. Ataev1, Valery Mamedov1 and Hadis Morkoc1; 1Electrical Engineering, VCU, Richmond, Virginia; 2VCU, Richmond, Virginia; 3Semiconductor Research Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; 4Institute of Microelectronics Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation; 5Institute of Physics, Daghestan Scientific Centre of RAS, Makhachkala, Russian Federation.

E3.9
Spatially Resolved Electrical Defect Spectroscopy of Structural Defects in GaN Andre Krtschil, Hartmut Witte, Armin Dadgar, Juergen Christen and Alois Krost; Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.

E3.10
Multiphoton Spectroscopy Studies of GaN/InGaN Layered Structures Grown on Sapphire Matthew Gray1, J. B. Schlager1, N. A. Sanford1, A. Munkholm2 and M. R. Krames2; 1Optoelectronics Division 815, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado; 2Lumileds Lighting, San Jose, California.

E3.11
Reduction of dislocation density in AlGaN with high AlN molar fraction by using a rugged AlN epilayer Akira Ishiga1, Yuhuai Liu2, Masaya Haraguchi3, Noriyuki Kuwano3, Hideto Miyake1, Kazumasa Hiramatsu1, Tomohiko Shibata4 and Mitsuhiro Tanaka4; 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan; 2SVBL, Mie University, Tsu, Japan; 3Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyusyu University, Kasuga, Japan; 4NGK Insulators, Ltd, Nagoya, Japan.

E3.12
Fabrication and Characterization of UV Schottky Detectors by using a Freestanding GaN Substrate. Yasuhiro Shibata1, Atsushi Motogaito1, Hideto Miyake1, Kazumasa Hiramatsu1, Youichiro Ohuchi2, Hiroaki Okagawa2, Kazuyuki Tadatomo2, Tatsushi Nomura3, Yutaka Hamamura3 and Kazutoshi Fukui4; 1Electrical and Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Japan; 2Photonics Laboratory, Mitsubishi Cable Industries,Ltd., Itami, Japan; 3Core Technology Center, Nikon Corporation, Sagamihara, Japan; 4Research Center for Far-Infrared Region, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan.

E3.13
Strain-Induced Effects on the Resonant Tunneling of Holes in Zinc-Blende AlyGa1-yN/AlxGa1-xN/AlyGa1-yN Heterostructures. Meguenni Chahrazade, Zitouni Karima, Mokdad Nawal and Kadri Abderrahmane; Department of Physics, LEMOP-University Of Oran(Algeria), Oran, Algeria.

E3.14
Mesh Patterned Reflectors for High Extraction-Efficiency GaN-Based Light-Emitting Diodes. Hyunsoo Kim, Jaehee Cho, Jeong Wook Lee, Sukho Yoon, Hyungkun Kim, Cheolsoo Sone and Yongjo Park; Photonics Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Yongin-Si, South Korea.

E3.15
Investigation of Pit Formation Induced by the Desorption of InxGa1-xN Layer Grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition. Tan Sakong, Hosun Paek, Joongkon Son, Sung-Nam Lee, Wonseok Lee, Okhyun Nam and Yongjo Park; Photonics Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea.

E3.16
Excitation Wavelength Dependent Raman Scattering in Low and Highly Degenerate InN Films. Vaman M. Naik1, H. Dai2, D. Haddad3, R. Naik2, J. S. Thakur3, G. W. Auner3, H. Lu4 and W. J. Schaff4; 1Natural Sciences, U Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

E3.17
Effects of AlGaN and SiN Interlayers in the MOCVD Epitaxial Growth of GaN on Silicon. Matt Charles, M. J. Kappers and C. J. Humphreys; Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge University, UK, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

E3.18
Effect of [VGa-ON]2- threading edge dislocations on electron mobility in epitaxial GaN. Jeong H. You and H. T. Johnson; Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

E3.19
Electrical Characterization of As- and [As+Si]-Doped GaN Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition. Mo Ahoujja1, Said Elhamri1, Rex Berney1, Yung Kee Yeo2 and Robert Hengehold2; 1Physics, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio; 2ENP, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, Ohio.

E3.20
Polarity Control of GaN Thin Films Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition on (0001) Sapphire. Seiji Mita, Ramon Collazo, Raoul Schlesser and Zlatko Sitar; Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

E3.21
High Field Magneto-transport Studies of (Ga,Mn)As Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors. Kartik C Ghosh1, T. Kehl1, Md. Arif1, S. Mishra2 and J. Broerman1; 1Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; 2Department of Physics, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.

E3.22
Dependence of the E2 and A1(LO) Modes on InN Fraction in InGaN Epilayers. S. Hernandez1, R. Cusco2, L. Artus2, K. P. O'Donnell1, R. W. Martin1, I. M. Watson3, M. Jurouchi4 and Y. Nanishi4; 1Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; 2Institut Jaume Almera, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (C.S.I.C.), Barcelona, Spain; 3Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; 4Department of Photonics, School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan.

E3.23
Growth of Gallium Nitride via Iodine Vapor Phase Epitaxy. William J Mecouch, Zach Reitmeier, Ji-Soo Park, Brian P Wagner, Robert F Davis and Zlatko Sitar; Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

E3.24
Influence of Junction Temperature on Chromaticity and Color Rendering Properties of Tri-Chromatic Gaussian White Light Sources Based on Light-Emitting Diodes. Sameer Chhajed1, E. F. Schubert1,2, Thomas Gessmann1, Y. L. Li1 and Yangang Xi2; 1Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

E3.25
P-type Doping of AlGaN Alloys by Plasma-Assisted MBE. Wei Li and Theodore D. Moustakas; ECE, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

E3.26
Abstract Withdrawn

E3.27
Characterization of the Carrier Confinement for InGaN/GaN Light Emitting Diode with Multiquantum Barriers. Jen-Cheng Wang, Ray-Ming Lin, Tzer-En Nee and Nie-Chuan Chen; Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan.

E3.28
Structural property of Eu doped GaN and its relation with luminescence property. Hyungjin Bang1, Junji Sawahata3, Takahiro Maruyama1,2, Shigeya Naritsuka1,2 and Katsuhiro Akimoto3; 121st Century COE program, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; 2Department of materials science and engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; 3Institute of applied physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

E3.29
Abstract Withdrawn

E3.30
Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Studies of InGaN Epilayers. Viatcheslav Katchkanov1,2, K. P. O'Donnell1, S. Hernandez1, R. W. Martin1, J.F.W. Mosselmans2, Y. Nanishi3 and M. Kurouchi3; 1Department of Physics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; 2Synchrotron Radiation Department, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warington, England, United Kingdom; 3Department of Photonics, School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan.

E3.31
X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence studies of InGaN and rare-earth doped GaN epilayers Viatcheslav Katchkanov1,2, K.P. O'Donnell1, S. Hernandez1, J.F.W. Mosselmans2 and N.R.J. Poolton2; 1Department of Physics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; 2Synchrotron Radiation Department, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, England, United Kingdom.

E3.32
Growth and Characterization of InGaN/GaN LEDs on Corrugated Interface Substrate Using MOCVD. Sunwoon Kim1, Jeong Tak Oh1, Kyu Han Lee1, Dong Joon Kim1, Je Won Kim1, Yong Chun Kim1 and Jeong Wook Lee2; 1Semiconductor Device R&D Group, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Suwon, Gyunggi-Do, South Korea; 2Photonics Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, Gyunggi-Do, South Korea.

E3.33
Mechanism of Stress Reduction in GaN Epitaxy on Si (111) by Periodic Silicon Delta-Doping. Keyan Zang1, Soo Jin Chua1,2, Lian Shan Wang2 and Carl V. Thompson1,3; 1Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore, Singapore; 2Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, Singapore, Singapore; 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts.

E3.34
Complex Ordering in AlGaN Thin Films. Yiyi Wang1, Anirban Bhattacharyya2, Ahmet S Ozcan1, Theodore D Moustakas2, Karl F Ludwig1, Lin Zhou3 and David Smith3; 1Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

E3.35
Mechanism of Metalorganic MBE Growth of High Quality AlN on Si (111). Iulian Gherasoiu, Sergey Nikishin, Gela Kipshidze, Boris Borisov, Anil Chandolu, Mark Holtz and Henryk Temkin; Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

E3.36
Optical characterization of high quality AlN single crystals Jayantha Senawiratne1, Martin Strassburg1, Nikolaus Dietz1, Ute Haboeck2, Axel Hoffmann2, Vladimir Noveski3, Rafael Dalmau3, Raoul Schlesser3 and Zlatko Sitar3; 1Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Institute of Solid State Physics, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 3Material Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

E3.37
Enhancement of Light Extraction Efficiency of GaInN LEDs by Omni-Directional Diffuse Reflectors. Jong Kyu Kim1, Hong Luo2, Jay M Shah1, Yangang Xi2, Thomas Gessmann1 and E Fred Schubert1,2; 1ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

E3.38
Discrete Steps in the Capacitance Voltage Characteristics of GaInN/GaN Light Emitting Diode Structures. Yong Xia1,3, Eric Williams1,3, Yena Park2,3, Ibrahim Yilmaz1,3, Jay M Shah2,3, E. F. Schubert2,3,1 and C. Wetzel1,3; 1Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 3Future Chips Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

E3.39
Optimization of p-type AlGaN/GaN and InGaN/GaN Superlattice Design for Enhanced Vertical Transport. M.Z. Kauser2,1, A. Osinsky1, J.W. Dong1, B. Hertog1, A. Dabiran1 and P.P. Chow1; 1SVT Associates, Eden prairie, Minnesota; 2ECE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

E3.40
Influence of Mis-Orientation of C-plane Sapphire Substrate on the Early Stages of MOCVD Growth of GaN Thin Films. Seongwoo Kim1, Hideo Aida2 and Toshimasa Suzuki1; 1System Engineering, Nippon Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan; 2NAMIKI Precision Jewel Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.

E3.41
Thermally stable transparent Ru-Si-O Schottky contacts for n-type GaN and AlxGa1-xN Eliana Kaminska1, Anna Piotrowska1, Krystyna Golaszewska1, Andrian Kuchuk1, Radoslaw Lukasiewicz1, Emil Kowalczyk1, Adam Barcz1,2, Elzbieta Dynowska2, Rafal Jakiela2, Anna Stonert3, Artur Szczesny1, Andrzej Turos3 and Michal Wiatroszak1; 1Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland; 2Institute of Physics PAS, Warsaw, Poland; 3Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland.

E3.42
Abstract Withdrawn

E3.43
Probing the 2-dimensional electron gas in AlInGaN/ GaN heterostructure by photoluminescence spectroscopy Chew Beng Soh1,2, Soo Jin Chua1,2, Wei Liu2, Sudhiranjan Tripathy2 and Dongzhi Chi2; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2IMRE, Singapore, Singapore.

SESSION E4: Indium Nitride
Chairs: Olivier Briot and William Schaff
Tuesday Morning, November 30, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *E4.1
Towards Fabrication of Device Quality InN-based III-Nitrides Nano-Heterostructures: Growth and Properties of Thick InN Films, InN-based SQW/MQW Structures, and Quantum Dots by RF-MBE. Akihiko Yoshikawa, Yoshihiro Ishitani, Song-Bek Che, Ke Xu, Xinqiang Wang, Masayoshi Yoshitani, Wataru Terashima and Naoki Hashimoto; Department of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, and InN-project as a CREST program of JST, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

9:00 AM E4.2
Effects of the Nitridation Process of (0001) Sapphire on Crystalline Quality of InN Grown by RF-MBE. Daisuke Muto1, Ryotaro Yoneda1, Hiroyuki Naoi2, Tsutomu Araki1 and Yasushi Nanishi1; 1Department of Photonics, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan; 2Center for Promotion of the COE Program, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan.

9:15 AM E4.3
Growth of InN Films by Cluster Beam Epitaxy and RF Plasma-assisted MBE. Tai-Chou P. Chen, Christos Thomidis, Joshua Abell, Anirban Bhattacharyya and Theodore D. Moustakas; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

9:30 AM E4.4
Study on RF-MBE growth and control of InN dots on N-polar GaN grown on vicinal c-plane sapphire. Naoki Hashimoto1,2, Naohiro Kikukawa1, Song-Bek Che1,2, Yoshihiro Ishitani1,2 and Akihiko Yoshikawa1,2; 1Department of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; 2InN-project as a CREST program of JST, Chiba University, chiba, Japan.

9:45 AM E4.5
Precise Surface Control in RF-MBE of InN Epitaxy by In-situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Masayoshi Yoshitani1,3, Song-Bek Che1,2,3, Yoshihiro Ishitani1,2,3 and Akihiko Yoshikawa1,2,3; 1Dept. of Electronics and Mechanial Engineering, Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan; 2VBL, Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan; 3InN-Project as a CREST program of JST, Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *E4.6
Structural and optical properties of InN films and dots analysed by transmission electron microscopy Thilo Remmele and Martin Albrecht; Characterisation, Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany.

11:00 AM E4.7
Influence of the MOVPE Growth Conditions on the Lateral Growth of InN onto Sapphire Substrates. Sandra Ruffenach, Olivier Briot, Benedicte Maleyre and Bernard Gil; GES, CNRS, MONTPELLIER, France.

11:15 AM E4.8
Mechanism of Raman Scattering in Doped InN. Claire Pinquier1, Francois Demangeot1, Jean Frandon1, Olivier Briot2, Benedicte Maleyre2, Sandra Clur-Ruffenach2 and Bernard Gil2; 1Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France; 2Groupe d'Etudes des Semiconducteurs, Universite Montpellier II, Montpellier, France.

11:30 AM E4.9
Phonon Lifetimes and Decay Mechanisms in InN. James W. Pomeroy1, Martin Kuball1, Hai Lu2 and William J. Schaff2; 1H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

11:45 AM E4.10
Unusual Phase Transition in Alloys of GaN, InN and ScN V. Ranjan1, S. Bin-Omran1, L. Bellaiche1 and Ahmad Alsaad2; 1Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas; 2Department of Physical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid, Jordan.

SESSION E5: Optical Properties
Chairs: Tomasz Dietl and Bernard Gil
Tuesday Afternoon, November 30, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *E5.1
Recombination Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Nitride Systems. Yoichi Kawakami1, Akio Kaneta1, Kunimichi Omae2, Masayoshi Abiko1, Ruggero Micheletto1, Giichi Marutsuki3, Yukio Narukawa3 and Takashi Mukai3; 1Dept of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2Paul-Drude-Institut fur Festkorperelektronik, Berlin, Germany; 3Nitride Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Nichia Corporation, Anan, Tokushima, Japan.

2:00 PM E5.2
Microscopic Luminescence Properties and Vertical Exciton Transport in InGaN/GaN Light Emitters on Si(111) Till Riemann, Juergen Christen, Karsten Fehse, Armin Dadgar and Alois Krost; Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.

2:15 PM E5.3
Microphotoluminescence studies of excitonic and multi-excitonic states of quantum dot-like localization centers in InGaN/GaN structures K. Sebald, H. Lohmeyer, J. Gutowski, S. Einfeldt and D. Hommel; Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

2:30 PM E5.4
Franz-Keldysh Effects on Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in an InGaN Thin Film. Hsiang-Chen Wang1, Yen-Chen Lu1, Chih-Chung Teng1, Chih-Chung Yang1, Kung-Jen Ma2, Chang-Chi Pan3 and Jen-Inn Chyi3; 1Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chung Hua University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Chung-LI, Taiwan.

2:45 PM E5.5
Efficient Luminescence from {11.2} InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells. Mitsuru Funato1, Koji Nishizuka1, Yoichi Kawakami1, Yukio Narukawa2 and Takashi Mukai2; 1Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2Nitride Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Nichia Corporation, Tokushima, Japan.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM E5.6
Investigation of Compositional Inhomogeneity in GaN and InGaN Alloys Using Near-Field Scanning Optical and Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopies. Bing Han1, Melville P. Ulmer2 and Bruce W. Wessels1; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

3:45 PM E5.7
Carbon-Related Deep States in Compensated n-Type and Semi-Insulating GaN:C and their Influence on Yellow Luminescence. Andrew Michael Armstrong1, A. R. Arehart1, C. Poblenz2, D. S. Green2, U. K. Mishra3, J. S. Speck2, D. C. Look4 and S. A. Ringel1; 1Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 2Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 3Electrical & Computr Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 4Semiconductor Research Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

4:00 PM E5.8
Near Field Optical Spectroscopy of GaN/AlN Quantum Dots Arup Neogi1, Hadis Morkoc3, Brian P Gorman2, Atsushi Tackeuchi4, Tadashi Kawazoe5 and Motoichi Ohtsu5; 1Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; 2Material Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; 3Physics and Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; 4Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; 5Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

4:15 PM E5.9
Recombination Mechanism in Short-Wavelength GaN/AlGaN Quantum Wells Andreas Hangleiter, Daniel Fuhrmann, Thomas Retzlaff and Uwe Rossow; Institute of Technical Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

4:30 PM E5.10
Oxygen-related Shallow Acceptor in GaN. Bo A Monemar1, Plamen Paskov1, Filip Tuomisto2, Kimmo Saarinen2, Hiroshi Amano3 and Isamu Akasaki3; 1Dept of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden; 2Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland; 3Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan.

4:45 PM E5.11
Photoluminescence study of plastically deformed GaN Ichiro Yonenaga1, Michio Makino1, Shun Itoh1, Takenari Goto2 and Takao Yao2; 1Institute for Materials research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 2CIR, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

SESSION E6: Transistors
Chairs: David Cassagne and Mike Manfra
Wednesday Morning, December 1, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *E6.1
Deep_Submicron Gate-Recessed and Field-Plated Algan/Gan Hfets for Mmwave Applications. Jeong Moon1, Shihchang Wu2, D. Wong1, I. Milosavljevic1, P. Hashimoto1, M. Hu1, M. Antcliffe1 and M. Micovic1; 1HRL Laboratories, Malibu, California; 2Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, California.

9:00 AM E6.2
GaN Devices for High-Efficiency High Power X-band Radar Performance Enhancement Grown on High Thermal Conductivity AlN Substrates. W. Stacey1, P. Lamarre1, J. Murguia3, V. Tassev3, C. Thomidis2, W. Li2, T. Moustakas2, J. Lorenzo4, D. Bliss4 and Q. Sun-Paduano4; 1Photronix Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts; 2Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Solid State Scientific Corporation, Hollis, New Hampshire; 4Air Force Research Laboratory, Bedford, Massachusetts.

9:15 AM E6.3
AlGaN/GaN Field Effect Schottky Barrier Diode for a Low Loss Switching Device. Seikoh Yoshida, Nariaki Ikeda, Jiang Li and Kohji Hataya; Yokohama R&D Laboratories, The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

9:30 AM E6.4
AlGaN/GaN HFETs and Insulated Gate HFETs DC and RF Stability. Salih Saygi, Alexei Koudymov, Grigory Simin, Vinod Adivarahan, Shiva Rai, Jinwei Yang and M. Asif Khan; Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

9:45 AM E6.5
Normally-off operation GaN HFET using a thin AlGaN layer for low loss switching devices Nariaki Ikeda, Kazuo Kato, Jiang Li, Kohji Hataya and Seikoh Yoshida; Furukawa Electric co.ltd, YOKOHAMA, Japan.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *E6.6
Electronic Devices Based on Pyroelectric Nitrides Oliver Stefan Ambacher, Center for Micro- and Nanotechnologies, Technical University Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.

11:00 AM E6.7
High Performance GaN Field-Effect-Transistors Grown by MOVPE with in-situ Si3N4 Surface Passivation. Marianne Germain, Joff Derluyn, Dongping Xiao, Raf Vandersmissen, Jo Das, Wenfei Wang, Steven Boeykens, Maarten Leys, Stefan Degroote, Wouter Ruythooren and Gustaaf Borghs; MCP, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium.

11:15 AM E6.8
High Quality AlGaN/GaN/AlN Based HEMT Structures on Bulk AlN Single Crystal Substrates for RF Applications. Qhalid Fareed1, Xuhong Hu1, Jianyu Deng1, Remis Gaska1, Michael Shur2, Edmundas Koukstis3 and M. Asif Khan3; 1Sensor Electronic Technology Inc., Columbia, South Carolina; 2Dept of ECE and CIE,, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 3Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

11:30 AM E6.9
Location of Deep Defects in AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors on Si Substrates and their Impact on Device Performance. Hartmut Witte1, K.-M. Guenther1, A. Krtschil1, A. Dadgar1, A. Krost1, J. Christen1, A.T. Winzer2 and R. Goldhahn2; 1Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany; 2Institute of Physics, Technical University Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.

11:45 AM E6.10
Thermal Mapping of Defects in AlGaN/GaN HFETs. M. Kuball1, J.W. Pomeroy1, M.J. Uren2, T. Martin2, R.S. Balmer2, D.J. Wallis2, K.P. Hilton2, G. Simin3 and M. Asif Khan3; 1H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; 2QinetiQ Ltd, Malvern, United Kingdom; 3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

SESSION E7: Photonic Applications
Chairs: Axel Hoffmann and Yoichi Kawakami
Wednesday Afternoon, December 1, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *E7.1
Enhancement of Second Harmonic Generation in One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional GaN-based Photonic Crystals. Jeremi Torres, Dominique Coquillat, Rene Legros, Jean Lascaray, Marine Le Vassor D Yerville, Emmanuel Centeno, David Cassagne and Jean-Paul Albert; Groupe d Etude des Semiconducteurs, Universite Montpellier II - CNRS, Montpellier, France.

2:00 PM E7.2
III-Nitride Deep UV Photonic Crystals. Jagat Shakya, Kyoung H. Kim, Jingyu Lin and Hongxing Jiang; Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

2:15 PM E7.3
All-Optical Switches Based on Intersubband Transitions in GaN/AlGaN/AlN Multiple Quantum Wells for Tbit/Sec Operation. Jahan M. Dawlaty, Farhan Rana and William J. Schaff; ECE, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

2:30 PM E7.4
The Ga-Nitride/air Two-Dimensional Photonic Quasicrystals Fabricated on GaN-based Light Emitters Bei Zhang, ZhenSheng Zhang, Jun Xu, Qi Wang, ZhiJian Yang, WeiHua Chen, XiaoDong Hu, ZhiXin Qin, GuoYi Zhang and DaPeng Yu; Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China.

2:45 PM E7.5
Photoelectrochemical etching of GaN as a tool for smooth etching and formation of pores and wires Ion Tiginyanu1,2, Veaceslav Popa1, Olesea Volciuc1, Oleg Cojocari3, Veaceslav Ursaki2, Dimitris Pavlidis3 and Hans Hartnagel3; 1Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures, Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova; 2Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova; 3Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *E7.6
Strong Rabi Splitting and Polariton Lasers in Nitride-Based Microcavities Alexey Kavokin and Guillaume Malpuech; LASMEA, Blaise-Pascal university, Aubiere, France.

4:00 PM E7.7
Crack-Free Monolithic Nitride Microcavity using Highly Reflective AlInN/GaN Bragg Mirrors. J-F Carlin, Eric Feltin, J Dorsaz, R Butte, N Grandjean and M Ilegems; Institute for Quantum Electronics and Photonics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

4:15 PM E7.8
Crack-free Nitride-based Distributed Bragg Reflectors Grown on Patterned Substrates. Carsten Kruse, Stephan Figge, Sven Einfeldt, Claudia Roder, Jens Dennemarck and Detlef Hommel; Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

4:30 PM E7.9
Electroluminescence Characteristics of GaN-Based Micro-Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes at a Cavity Thickness Below 1μm. Tetsuo Fujii1, Aurelien David2, P Morgan Pattison2, Steven P DenBaars1,2, Claude Weisbuch2 and Shuji Nakamura1,2; 1NICP/ERATO JST, UCSB Group, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

4:45 PM E7.10
Nanoscale Imaging of InxGa1-xN Thickness Fluctuations and In Clustering in InxGa1-xN/GaN Quantum-well Structures Using SCM. Xiaotian Zhou1, E. T. Yu1, D. I. Florescu2, J. C. Ramer2, D. S. Lee2 and E. A. Armour2; 1Electrical and computer engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; 2Veeco TurboDisc Operations, Somerset, New Jersey.

SESSION E8: Poster Session
Wednesday Evening, December 1, 2004
8:00 PM
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)


E8.1
Ultraviolet Raman Scattering of GaN Nanocrystallites: Intrinsic versus Collective Phenomena Xiang-Bai Chen1, John L. Morrison1, Jonathan G. Metzger1, Jarvis Weaskus1, Leah Bergman1 and Andrew P. Purdy2; 1Physics Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; 2Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, District of Columbia.

E8.2
High-Quality, Low-Cost Continuous Poly-GaN Film on Si an Glass Substrate Produced by Spin Coating. Huaqiang Wu1, Athanasios Bourlinos2, Emmanuel P. Giannelis2 and Michael G. Spencer1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

E8.3
Role of Band-Tails in Photoluminescence of AlGaN Epilayers in a Wide Range of Alloy Composition, Temperatures and Excitations. Edmundas Kuokstis, Wenhong Sun, Maxim Shatalov, Jiawei Li, Jinwei Yang and M. Asif Khan; Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

E8.4
AlN Bulk Crystal Growth on SiC Seeds. Rafael Dalmau, Raoul Schlesser and Zlatko Sitar; Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

E8.5
Transferrred to E10.7

E8.6
Theoretical determination of the intrinsic free carrier mobility in AlGaN/GaN quantum wells Francesca Carosella1, Marianne Germain2 and Jean-Louis Farvacque1; 1Universite' des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, CNRS UMR 8008, Villeneuve d' Ascq, France; 2IMEC, Microsystems, Components and Packaging, Leuven, Belgium.

E8.7
Strain and Bow Management of GaN Optoelectronic Devices Grown on 4 inch Sapphire. C. Sommerhalter2, H. Protzmann1, M. Luenenbuerger1, J. Kaeppeler1, B. Schineller1 and Michael Heuken1; 1AIXTRON AG, Aachen, Germany; 2AIXTRON Inc., Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

E8.8
The Reduction of Threading Dislocations in GaN: A Study by Transmission Electron Microscopy Ranjan Datta, Menno J. Kappers, Jonathan S. Barnard and Colin J. Humphreys; Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

E8.9
Effect of Edge Dislocations on Polarization Dependent Loss of MBE-grown GaN Ridge Waveguides at Optical Communication Wavelengths. Norio Iizuka, Kei Kaneko and Nobuo Suzuki; Corporate R & D Center, Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan.

E8.10
Microstructure of highly p-type doped GaN sub-contact layers for low-resistivity contacts Roland Kroeger1, Jens Dennemarck1, Stephan Figge1, Tim Boettcher1, Detlef Hommel1, Eliana Kaminska2 and Ania Piotrowska2; 1Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; 2Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

E8.11
Dislocation Nucleation and Subsequent Annihilation in MOCVD-Grown GaN Films and AlN Nucleation Layers on 4H-SiC Patterned Mesa Substrates. Nabil D. Bassim1, Mark E. Twigg1, Charles R. Eddy1, Phillip G. Neudeck2, Michael A. Mastro1, Richard L. Henry1, James C. Culbertson1, Andrew J. Trunek3, J. A. Powell4 and Ronald T. Holm1; 1Electronics Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, SW, District of Columbia; 2NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio; 3OAI, Cleveland, Ohio; 4Sest, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

E8.12
Cathodoluminescence of Praseodymium Doped Amorphous AlN, GaN and Turbostratic BN. Muhammad Maqbool and Martin E Kordesch; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

E8.13
Micro-Characterization of GaN and AlGaN on Si(001) Fabian Schulze, Till Riemann, Armin Dadgar, Juergen Blaesing, Juergen Christen and Alois Krost; Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-v.-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.

E8.14
Characterization of P-type Dopants in III-Nitrides by SIMS. Richard S. Hockett1, Patrick Van Lierde1, Chunsheng Tian1, Pablo Cantu Alejandro2, Stacia Keller2 and Steven P. DenBaars2; 1Charles Evans & Associates, Sunnyvale, California; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

E8.15
Strong Room Temperature 510 nm Emission from Cubic InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Wells. Shunfeng Li1, Donat J. As1, Klaus Lischka1, David G. Pacheco-Salazar2, Jose Roberto Leite2, Fernando Cerdeira3 and Eliermes A. Meneses3; 1Department of Physics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; 2Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 3Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.

E8.16
Intense, Long-Lived, Room Temperature Photoluminescence from Localized States in AlGaN Alloys. Charles J. Collins1, A. V. Sampath1, G. A. Garrett1, W. L. Sarney1, H. Shen1, M. Wraback1, A. Y. Nikiforov2, G. S. Cargill2 and V. Dierolf3; 1Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; 3Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

E8.17
High-Quality Thin GaN Layers Directly Grown on Sapphire by HVPE. Denis Martin, Jerome Napierala, Raphael Butte, Nicolas Grandjean and Marc Ilegems; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.

E8.18
High Pressure Annealing of HVPE GaN Free-Standing Films: Redistribution of Defects and Strain. Tanya Paskova1, Tadeusz Suski2, Michael Bockowski2, Plamen Paskov1, Vanya Darakchieva1, Bo Monemar1, Filip Tuomisto3, Kimmo Saarinen3 and Pierre Gibart4; 1IFM, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden; 2Unipress, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; 3Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland; 4Lumilog, Vallauris, France.

E8.19
Spectral Properties of InGaN/GaN-Structures Grown by MOCVD on Non-Planar Si(111) Substrates Andrea Strittmatter1, L. Reissmann1, D. Bimberg1, T. Riemann2 and J. Christen2; 1Technical University Berlin, Institute of Solid State Physics, Sekr. PN 5-2, Berlin, Germany; 2Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Inst. of Experimental Physics, Magdeburg, Germany.

E8.20
Comparison of the Effect of Gate Dielectric Layer on 2DEG Carrier Concentration in Strained AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure. Wenfei Wang1,2, Marianne Germain1, Joff Derluyn1, Ingrid Dewolf1, Dominique Schreurs1,2, Wouter Ruythooren1, Johan Das1, Raf Vandersmissen1 and Gustaaf Borghs1,3; 1MCP, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; 2E.E., K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 3Physics, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

E8.21
Partial Dislocations in Wurtzite Structure GaN. Rong Liu1, Fernando A. Ponce1, Changqing Chen2, Jinwei Yang2 and M. Asif Khan2; 1Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

E8.22
Abstract Withdrawn

E8.23
X-ray Characterization of GaN Single Crystal Layers Grown by the Ammonothermal Technique on HVPE GaN Seeds and by the Sublimation Technique on Sapphire Seeds Balaji Raghothamachar1, Michael Dudley1, Michael Callahan2, Buguo Wang2, Phanikumar Konkapaka3, Huaqiang Wu3, Michael Spencer3 and David Bliss2; 1Materials Science & Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; 2Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts; 3Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

E8.24
Sychrotron White Beam X-ray Topography (SWBXT) and High Resolution Triple Axis Diffraction Studies on AlN Layers Grown on 4H- and 6H-SiC Seeds Balaji Raghothamachar1, Michael Dudley1, Rafael Dalmau2, Raoul Schlesser2 and Zlatko Sitar2; 1Materials Science & Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; 2Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

E8.25
Atomic and Electronic Structure of Mixed and Partial Dislocations in GaN. Ilke Arslan1, Andrew Bleloch2, Eric A. Stach3 and Nigel D. Browning4,3; 1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2UK SuperSTEM Laboratory, Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom; 3National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; 4Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, California.

E8.26
Investigation of the Structure and Optical Properties of High Al Content AlGaN Films Grown by MBE. Anirban Bhattacharyya1, R. Chandrasekaran1, T. D. Moustakas1, Yiyi Wang2, Ahmet S Ozcan2, K. F. Ludwig2, Zhou Lin3 and David J Smith3; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Center for Solid State Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

E8.27
Abstract Withdrawn

E8.28
P-Type GaN Epitaxial Layers and AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures with High Hole Concentration and Mobility Grown by HVPE. Alexander Usikov1,2, Oleg Kovalenkov1, Vladimir Ivantsov1, Vladimir Dmitriev1, Natalia Shmidt2, Dmitrii Poloskin2, Vladimir Petrov2 and Valentin Ratnikov2; 1Technologies and Devices International, Silver Spring, Maryland; 2A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation.

E8.29
Abstract Withdrawn

E8.30
Impact of H2-Preannealing of Sapphire Substrate on Crystallization of Low-Temperature-Deposited AlN Buffer Layer. Michinobu Tsuda1,2, Motoaki Iwaya2, Satoshi Kamiyama2, Hiroshi Amano2 and Isamu Akasaki2; 1Single Crystal Division, Kyocera Corporation, Youkaichi, Shiga, Japan; 2Faculty of Science & Technology, 21st Century COE "Nano-Factory", Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

E8.31
Low Frequency Noise Characterization In AlGaN/GaN HEMTs With Varying Gate Recess Depth Shrawan Kumar Jha1, B. H. Leung1, Charles Surya1, H. Schweizer2 and M. H. Pilkhuhn2; 1Electronic & Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of HongKong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; 2Department of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

E8.32
Growth and Physics of GaN-Based Wrinkled Quantum Wells by MBE. Jasper S. Cabalu1, Christos Thomidis1, Theodore D. Moustakas1 and Spilios Riyopoulus2; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia.

E8.33
The Influence of Stacking Faults on the Optical Properties of GaN. Jin Mei1, Sridhar Srinivasan1, Rong Liu1, Fernando A Ponce1, Takashi Mukai2 and Shinji Tanaka2; 1Dept. Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Nichia Corporation, Anan, Tokushima, Japan.

E8.34
Influence of Substrate Misorientation Angle and Direction in Molecular-Beam Epitaxial Growth of GaN on Off-Axis SiC (0001). Jun Suda1,2, Yuki Nakano1 and Tsunenobu Kimoto1; 1Dept of Electronics Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan.

E8.35
Abstract Withdrawn

E8.36
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of GaN on Lattice-matched ZrB2 Substrates Using Low Temperature GaN and AlN Nucleation Layers Rob Armitage1, Kazuhiro Nishizono2, Jun Suda1 and Tsunenobu Kimoto1; 1Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, Japan.

E8.37
Study on Surface Characteristics in Mg-doped GaN Light Emitting Diode Grown by MOCVD Hyun jung Lee, Bae Kyun Kim, Kyu Han Lee, Je Won Kim, Dong Joon Kim, Sun Woon Kim and Jeong Tak Oh; Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Suwon, Kyunggi-Do, South Korea.

E8.38
In-situ Monitoring of Growth Parameters during Epitaxial Growth of AlN. David Bliss1, Vladimir Tassev2, David Weyburne1, Sheng-Qi Wang2, Mitchell Fait1, Jeffrey Anthis3, Nam Nguyen3, Michael Suscavage1, Chris Santeufemio1 and John Bailey2; 1Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts; 2Solid State Scientific Corporation, Hollis, New Hampshire; 3Epichem, Inc., Haverhill, Massachusetts.

E8.39
Self-Organized Nano-Column GaN/AlN Superlattice Crystals Grown by RF-MBE
Kooji Yamamo, Makoto Tada, Akihiko Kukuchi, Katsumi Kishino; Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

E8.40
Dislocation Reduction in GaN Epilayers by Maskless Pendeo-Epitaxy Process. Dong Jun Park1, Jeong Yong Lee1, Hyung Koun Cho2, Chang Hee Hong3, and Hung Seob Cheong3; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering, Daejeon, South Korea, 2Metallurgical Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea, 3Semiconductor Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, South Korea.

E8.41
Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies of Eu3+ Centers in GaN. Hong Ying Peng1, Henry O. Everitt1, Chang-Won Lee1, J. M. Zavada2, D. S. Lee3, and A. J. Steckl3; 1Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; 2US Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; 3Nanoelectronics Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

E8.42
TEM Analysis of Reduction of Dislocation Density in AlGaN Grown on an AlN Template. Noriyuki Kuwano1, M. Haraguchi2, A. Ishiga3, H. Miyake3, K. Hiramatsu3, and T. Shibata4,3; 1ASTEC, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Dept Adv Sci for Electr & Mater, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan; 3Dept Elec & Electr, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan; 4NGK Insulators Ltd, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

SESSION E9: New Directions in Nitride Research
Chairs: Oliver Ambacher and Alexey Kavokin
Thursday Morning, December 2, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *E9.1
Spintronics in Nitrides. Tomasz Dietl, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland.

9:00 AM E9.2
Evidence of Carrier Mediated Ferromagnetism in GaN:Mn/GaN:Mg Heterostructures. Erdem F. Arkun1, Mason J. Reed1, Acar E. Berkman1, Nadia El-Masry1, Meredith L. Reed3, John Zavada2 and Salah M. Bedair3; 1Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 2Army Research Office, Durham, North Carolina; 3Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

9:15 AM E9.3
Synthesis and Properties of GaxMn1-xN films Rong Zhang, Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

9:30 AM E9.4
Impact of Manganese Incorporation on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of MOCVD-Grown Ga1-xMnxN. Matthew H. Kane1,2, Ali Asghar1, Hun Kang1, Adam M Payne1, Ian T. Ferguson1, Christopher R. Summers2, Christy R. Vestal3, Z. John Zhang3, Martin Strassburg1,4, Jayantha Senawiratne4, Nikolaus Dietz4, Dmitry Azamat5, Wolfgang Gehlhoff5, Uta Haboeck5 and Axel Hoffmann5; 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia; 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 3School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 4Department of Pysics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; 5Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

9:45 AM E9.5
Optical and Structural Investigations on Mn Ion States in MOCVD-grown Ga1-xMnxN Martin Strassburg1,2, Jayantha Senawiratne1, Nikolaus Dietz1, Matthew H. Kane2, Ali Asghar2, Adam M. Payne2, Ian T. Ferguson2, Christopher R. Summers3, Ute Haboeck4, Axel Hoffmann4, Dmitry Azamat4 and Wolfgang Gehlhoff4; 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 4Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *E9.6
Site Multiplicity of Rare Earth Ions in III-Nitride Hosts. Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Viatcheslav Katchkanov and Renibel Network; Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

11:00 AM E9.7
Optical activation of implanted Eu ions in AlN-capped GaN Robert W. Martin1, Iman S. Roqan1, Ke Wang1, Uli Wahl2, Katherina Lorenz2, Eduardo Alves2, Stephane Dalmasso1, Kevin P. O'Donnell1, Sandra Ruffenach3, Olivier Briot3 and Renibel Network1; 1Physics Department, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2ITN, 2686-953 Sacavem, Portugal; 3GES, Universite de Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier, France.

11:15 AM E9.8
Aquamarine Luminescence Band in Undoped GaN. Michael A. Reshchikov1,2, Lei He2, Richard J. Molnar3, S. S. Park4, K. Y. Lee4 and Hadis Morkoc2,1; 1Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; 2Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; 3Lincoln Laboratory, Massachsetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts; 4SAIT, Suwon, South Korea.

11:30 AM E9.9
Heterojunction Band Offset Measurements of the ZnO-GaN Interface. Charles Fulton1, R. J. Nemanich2,1, C. Liu3, Sang-Jun Cho3 and H. Morkoc3; 1Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, North Carolina; 2Physics, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, North Carolina; 3Electrical Engineering & Physics, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, Virginia.

11:45 AM E9.10
The interaction of defects and hydrogen in proton-irradiated GaN(Mg,H). Carleton H. Seager1 and Sam M. Myers2; 101111, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 201112, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SESSION E10: Lasers and Light-Emitting Diodes II
Chairs: Kevin P. O'Donnell and Shigetaka Tomiya
Thursday Afternoon, December 2, 2004
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *E10.1
Advances in AlGaN-based Deep-UV LEDs. Mary H. Crawford, Andrew A. Allerman, Arthur J. Fischer, Katherine H. A. Bogart, Stephen R. Lee, Weng W. Chow, Sebastian M. Wieczorek, Robert J. Kaplar and Steven R. Kurtz; Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2:00 PM *E10.2
Homo- and Heteroepitaxy for GaN-Based Laser Diodes. S. Figge, T. Boettcher, J. Dennemarck, S. Einfeldt, C. Roder and D. Hommel; Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

2:30 PM E10.3
Development of LED Structures for General Illumination David Brackin Nicol1, Ali Asghar1, Dhairya Mehta1, My Tran1, Hun Kang1, Ian T. Ferguson1, Mustafa Alevli2, Jayantha Senawiratne2, Christoph Hums2,3, Martin Strassburg2, Nikolaus Dietz2 and Axel Hoffmann3; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; 3Institute of Solid State Physics, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

2:45 PM E10.4
Thermal Analysis of Multi-Quantum Well LEDs in InGaN/GaN/Sapphire Structure Using Nematic Liquid Crystal Thermography. Jeong Park1, Chin C. Lee1 and MooWhan Shin2; 1Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Myong Ji University, Yongin, Kyunggi-Do, South Korea.

3:00 PM E10.5
Nitride LEDs on 6" Si substrates Jing Li1, J.Y. Lin2 and H.X. Jiang2; 1III-N Technology, Inc, Manhattan, Kansas; 2Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

3:15 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *E10.6
Nitride-Based Light-Emitting Diodes Grown on Particular Substrates: ZrB2, (30-38) SiC and R-faced Sapphire. Satoshi Kamiyama, Motoaki Iwaya, Hiroshi Amano and Isamu Akasaki; Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan.

4:00 PM E10.7
Reliable and Efficient Homoepitaxially-grown InGaN/GaN Light-emitting Diodes. X. A. Cao, S.D. Arthur, S.F. LeBoeuf, J.M. Teetsov and M.P. D'Evelyn; GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York.

4:15 PM E10.8
Reliability and Operation Lifetime Studies of sub-280 nm Ultraviolet Emitters on Sapphire Substrates Ashay Chitnis, Maxim Shatalov, Shuai Wu, Salih Saygi, Wenhong Sun, Vinod Adivarahan and M. Asif Khan; Electrical Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

4:30 PM E10.9
Characterization of Minority-Carrier Hole Transport in Nitride-Based Light-Emitting Diodes with Optical and Electrical Time-Resolved Techniques. Robert J Kaplar, Steven R Kurtz, Daniel D Koleske, Andrew A Allerman, Arthur J Fischer and Mary H Crawford; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

4:45 PM E10.10
High Power 340 nm UV-LEDs Grown by Plasma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (PAMBE). Jasper S. Cabalu1, Christos Thomidis1, Anirban Battacharyya1, Theodore D. Moustakas1 and Charles Collins2; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland.

SESSION E11: Poster Session
Chairs: Detlef Hommel and Martin Kuball
Thursday Evening, December 2, 2004
8:00 PM
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

E11.1
Grain Expansion and Subsequent Seeded Growth of AlN Single Crystals. Dejin Zhuang, Raoul Schlesser and Zlatko Sitar; Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

E11.2
Optimization of Growth and Activation of Highly Doped p-type GaN for Tunnel Junctions as Buried Current Spreading Layers in Dual Wavelength LEDs for Phosphor Pumping David Brackin Nicol, Ali Asghar, Edem Wornyo and Ian T Ferguson; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

E11.3
Study on the Sublimation Growth of AlN Bulk Crystals. Balakrishnan Krishnan1, Motoaki Iwaya1, Satoshi Kamiyama1, Hiroshi Amano1, Isamu Akaskai1, Takashi Takagi2 and Tadishi Noro2; 1Materials Science and Engineering (21st Century COE Nano-Factory), Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan; 2Ceramic Operation, Ibiden Company Ltd., Ogaki, Japan.

E11.4
In-situ Measurements of the Critical Thickness for Strain Relaxation in AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures. Stephen R. Lee1, Dan Koleske1, Karen Cross1, Jerry Floro1, Karen Waldrip1, Adam Wise2 and Subhash Mahajan2; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

E11.5
Resonant and Non-Resonant Micro-Raman Studies of Wide Bandgap Nanopowders Leah Bergman1, Xiang-Bai Chen1, John L. Morrison1, Jesse Huso1, Dmitriy Myedvyedyev1, Heather M. Hoeck1 and Shlomo Efrima2; 1Physics Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; 2Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

E11.6
Direct AFM Observation of Strain Effects on MOCVD Grown GaN Epilayer Surface Morphology. Doru Florescu, J.C. Ramer, V.N. Merai, A Parekh, D.S. Lee, D Lu and E.A. Armour; Veeco TurboDisc, Somerset, New Jersey.

E11.7
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Characterization of Amorphous III-V Nitride Thin Films. Jebreel M. Khoshman and Martin E. Kordesch; Physics & Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

E11.8
Room-temperature synthesis of ultraviolet-emitting nanocrystalline GaN films using photochemical vapor deposition Takashi Yatsui1, Syunsuke Yamazaki2, Takashi Nagira2, Motoichi Ohtsu3,1,2, Tae-Won Kim4 and Hiroshi Fujioka3,4; 1SORST, JST, Machida, Tokyo, Japan; 2Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; 3Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; 4Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technolog, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

E11.9
High-Frequency Generation in Low-Mobility Superlattices. Vladimir Litvinov1 and Alexander Manasson2; 1WaveBand Corporation, Irvine, California; 2Department of Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

E11.10
Crystallinity and Polarity of III-V Nitride Semiconductors Grown on ZnO. Takeshi Ohgaki1, Naoki Oh