Equipment for Developing Boron Nitride for Deep Ultraviolet Photonics, Solar Fuels, and Solid State Lighting

所要求的设备包括一个硼泻流电池和高温（高达1800 ℃）衬底加热器，这将是安装在现有的分子束外延（MBE）生长系统在麦吉尔大学这些组件将形成一个重要的和不可分割的一部分，MBE系统，提供独特的能力，生长和合成氮化硼（BN）的晶圆规模。这个独特的MBE增长设施是加拿大第一个此类设施，已经实现了广泛的研究项目，包括12个NSERC战略项目和2个NSERC I2I项目。这些研究活动涉及加拿大八个机构的近二十名教授，涉及新兴的固态照明，紫外光电子学和太阳能燃料。然而，迫切需要用于BN生长的几种组分，以便将研究活动扩展到深UV光谱范围，并且还能够实现更高效的太阳能燃料和固态照明设备和系统。

The requested equipment includes a boron effusion cell and a high temperature (up to 1800 C) substrate heater, which will be installed in an existing molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) growth system at McGill Univ. These components will form an essential and integral part of the MBE system, providing the unique capacity to grow and synthesize boron nitride (BN) on a wafer scale. This unique MBE growth facility, the first of its kind in Canada, has enabled a wide range of research projects, including 12 NSERC Strategic and 2 NSERC I2I Projects. These research activities involve nearly twenty professors in eight Canadian institutions on the emerging solid state lighting, UV optoelectronics, and solar fuels. However, several components for the growth of BN are urgently needed in order to extend the research activities into the deep UV spectral range and also to enable more efficient solar fuels and solid state lighting devices and systems.