A new method is proposed and demonstrated to distinguish the polar faces of 6H-SiC by pull-off forces which are clearly different on the Si-face and the C-face of 6H-SiC.
The reliability of this method is confirmed on 6H-SiC samples treated with different surface processing procedures.
The essence of different pull-off forces on different polar faces of 6H-SiC is that the surface energies between them are obviously different.
Theoretical calculations are consistent with our experimental results.