QUANTITATIVE-DETERMINATION OF HEXAGONAL MINORITY PHASE IN CUBIC GAN USING RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY

We show that Raman scattering is a very sensitive and straightforward tool for the quantitative determination of a structural minority phase in GaN. In- and on-plane excitations, as well as polarization dependent measurements on predominantly cubic and hexagonal GaN samples, were performed and forward scattering effects were found. We were able to verify as an example the phase purity of a cubic GaN sample down to the 1% level.