Revealing microstructure and dislocation behavior in BAlN/AlGaN heterostructures

The KAUST authors acknowledge the support of the GCC Research Program REP/1/3189-01-01, Baseline BAS/1/1664-01-01, and Equipment BAS/1/1664-01-07. The work at QU was supported by the GCC Research Program GCC-2017-007. The work at the Georgia Institute of Technology was supported in part by DARPA under Grant No. W911NF-15-1-0026 and NSF under Grant No. DMR-1410874. R.D.D. acknowledges the additional support of the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics and Georgia Research Alliance.

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