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Alloy clustering and defect structure in the molecular beam epitaxy of In0.53Ga0.47As on silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Alexandros Georgakilas ,
Athanasios Dimoulas ,
Aristotelis Christou  and
John Stoemenos
Alexandros Georgakilas*
Affiliation:
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1527, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Athanasios Dimoulas
Affiliation:
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1527, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Aristotelis Christou
Affiliation:
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1527, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece, and CALCE Electronic Packaging Research Center, Microelectromics Devices Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
John Stoemenos
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece
*
a)Present address: Visiting researcher in the CALCE Electronic Packaging Research Center, Microelectronics Devices Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.
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Abstract

The MBE growth of InxGa1−xAs (x ∼ 0.53) on silicon substrates has been investigated emphasizing the effects of substrate orientation and buffer layers between In0.53Ga0.47As and Si. It is shown that growth on silicon substrates misoriented from (001) toward a [110] direction eliminates the presence of antiphase domains. The best In0.53Ga0.47As surface morphology was obtained when a 0.9 μm epitaxial Si buffer was initially grown, followed by a pre-exposure of the silicon surface to As4 at 350 °C, followed by the growth of In0.53Ga0.47As. Threading dislocations, stacking faults, low-angle grain boundaries, and spinodal decomposition were observed by TEM in the InGaAs layers. The spinodal contrast scale was shown to depend on the buffer type and the total InGaAs thickness. Thick buffers consisted of GaAs or graded InxGa1−xAs layers, and large In0.53Ga0.47As thicknesses favor the development of a coarse-scale spinodal decomposition with periodicity around 0.1 μm. Thin GaAs buffers or direct In0.53Ga0.47As growth on Si may result in a fine-scale decomposition of periodicity ∼10 nm. The principal strain direction of the spinodal decomposition appeared along the [1$\overline 1$0] direction, parallel to the vicinal Si surface step edges. InGaAs immiscibility affects the InGaAs growth process, favoring a 3-D growth mode. X-ray diffraction measurements and photoreflectance spectra indicated that the sample quality was improved for samples exhibiting a fine-scale spinodal decomposition contrast even if they contained a higher dislocation density. Threading dislocations run almost parallel to the [001] growth axis and are not affected by strained layers and short period (InAs)3/(GaAs)3 superlattices. The lowest double crystal diffractometry FWHM for the (004) InGaAs reflection was 720 arc sec and has been obtained growing InGaAs directly on Si, while the lowest dislocation density was 3 × 109 cm−2 and was obtained using a 1.5 μm GaAs buffer before the In0.53Ga0.47As deposition.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 7 , Issue 8 , August 1992 , pp. 2194 - 2204
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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