The application belongs to the technical field of
semiconductor material science and technology, and particularly relates to a large-area
hexagonal boron nitride heteroepitaxial film on a
sapphire substrate and a preparation method thereof. The technical scheme provides a large-area
hexagonal boron nitride epitaxial film directly grown on a
sapphire substrate. The preparation method adopts an
ion beam assisted
sputtering method. In the growth process, the main and auxiliary
ion sources give high-energy
ion sputtering respectively, so that high-energy B / N atoms cross the energy barrier of the preferred orientation between the B / N atoms and the
substrate surface, form covalent bonding with the
substrate surface, induce the hexagonal grid plane of the
hexagonal boron nitride to extend vertically to the
substrate surface, and thus obtain a large-area vertically-oriented hexagonal
boron nitride epitaxial film. Compared with the common Van der Waals epitaxial growth method, the epitaxial method can effectively release stress, so that the bonding force between the hexagonal
boron nitride film and the substrate surface is stronger, and the stability is better, and the hexagonal
boron nitride film is suitable for being used as a template, a
transition layer, a heat dissipation layer and the like of optoelectronic devices and electronic devices.