Figure 1

Vickers hardness of bulk single-crystal GaN and AlN plotted against reciprocal temperature, with an applied load of 0.5 N and dwell time of 30 s, together with those of 6H-SiC, Si, Ge, GaP, GaAs, and ZnSe. RT means room temperature.


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