Hello everybody! I'm current new in here so I'm welcoming anybody that currently worked on ScN epitaxial/buffer/intermediate layer on GaN applications or others. Perhaps you can discussed about what technique that you've used to grow ScN and what are the physical characteristics that you can see on ScN (such as colours, appearance, etc). Or anything. Anything on ScN. Looking forward for your replies. Thanks!

You might want to try a specific Science, Physics of Materials forum for the above. If you've a LinkedIn profile, there are Materials discussion groups on there that will at least begin to point you in the right direction.
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Unfortunately, this is a general postgraduate discussion forum and probably not the best place to ask such a specific question.

Ian

I am a chemist, what sort of applications are you using the ScN and where are you looking?
Here are some papers to get you started!

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FB%3AJMSE.0000032591.54107.2c http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm048667y?journalCode=cmatex http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/publications/crystal-growth-and-properties-of-scandium-nitride(79b7e61c-6da2-4e2b-824c-bb36514f265f).html

Double post

JanineG : thanks for your help! but my research interest is more towards materials and physics applications for semiconductor fabrication :). By the way, do you know the is the colour for the ScN?

Scandium is a d - metal, so I will have to check the nitride. That is 3- and therefore the Scandium must be in a +3 oxidation state. I'll have to go through CFSE to get the colour right of the metal.

Do you have an Email I can send something to you re the Sc?