{"id":160,"date":"2026-04-16T06:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:10:41","slug":"electrochemical-etching-of-algan-for-the-realization-of-thin-film-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Electrochemical etching of AlGaN for the realization of thin-film devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>DOI:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1063\/1.5120397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1063\/1.5120397<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Authors:<\/h4>\n<p>Michael A. Bergmann, Johannes Enslin, Rinat Yapparov, Filip Hjort, Bj\u00f6rn Wickman, S. Marcinkevi\u010dius, Tim Wernicke, Michael Kneissl, \u00c5sa Haglund<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract:<\/h4>\n<p>Heterogeneously integrated AlGaN epitaxial layers will be essential for future optical and electrical devices like thin-film flip-chip ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes, UV vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, and high-electron mobility transistors on efficient heat sinks. Such AlGaN-membranes will also enable flexible and micromechanical devices. However, to develop a method to separate the AlGaN-device membranes from the substrate has proven to be challenging, in particular, for high-quality device materials, which require the use of a lattice-matched AlGaN sacrificial layer. We demonstrate an electrochemical etching method by which it is possible to achieve complete lateral etching of an AlGaN sacrificial layer with up to 50% Al-content. The influence of etching voltage and the Al-content of the sacrificial layer on the etching process is investigated. The etched N-polar surface shows the same macroscopic topography as that of the as-grown epitaxial structure, and the root-mean square roughness is 3.5 nm for 1 \u03bcm\u00d71 \u03bcm scan areas. Separated device layers have a well-defined thickness and smooth etched surfaces. Transferred multi-quantum-well structures were fabricated and investigated by time-resolved photoluminescence measurements. The quantum wells showed no sign of degradation caused by the thin-film process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: 10.1063\/1.5120397 Authors: Michael A. Bergmann, Johannes Enslin, Rinat Yapparov, Filip Hjort, Bj\u00f6rn Wickman, S. Marcinkevi\u010dius, Tim Wernicke, Michael Kneissl, \u00c5sa Haglund Abstract: Heterogeneously integrated AlGaN epitaxial layers will be essential for future optical and electrical devices like thin-film flip-chip ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes, UV vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, and high-electron mobility transistors on efficient heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sp-300-potentiostat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}