The use of SiC/Si(111) hybrid substrate for MBE growth of GaN nanowires

This work demonstrates the possibility of using a silicon substrate with nanoscale buffer layer of silicon carbide for growth of GaN nanowires by molecular epitaxy on. Morphological and optical properties of the grown arrays are studied. It is shown that the integral intensity of the photoluminescence of such structures is more than 2 times higher than the best NWs GaN structures without buffer layer of silicon carbide.