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Adatom Concentration Profiles on Simulated Vicinal Surfaces During Epitaxial Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Tomoya Shitara ,
Takashi Suzuki ,
Dimitri D. Vvedensky  and
Tatau Nishinaga
Tomoya Shitara
Affiliation:
The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
Takashi Suzuki
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7–3–1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
Dimitri D. Vvedensky
Affiliation:
The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
Tatau Nishinaga
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7–3–1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
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Abstract

Concentration profiles of surface atoms have been obtained from Monte Carlo simulations of epitaxial growth with anisotropic nearest-neighbor bonding on two different vicinal GaAs(001) surfaces which are misoriented toward [110] (denoted as A) and [110] (denoted as B). These profiles are compared with predictions based upon the original Burton-Cabrera-Frank (BCF) theory and with a modified BCF theory which accounts for the fact that all atoms, not simply free adatoms, can participate in surface diffusion. On both surfaces the modified BCF equation provides a more accurate description of the adatom concentration profiles than that obtained using only the free adatom concentration. This is due to step detachment processes which leads to an effective source of free adatoms that is not taken into account in the original BCF approach. Above the temperature where the growth becomes dominated by step advancement, the curvature of the concentration profile of potentially active atoms on both surfaces are similar but the concentrations differ due to the difference of the capture efficiency of the two types of step edges.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 280: Symposium B – Evolution of Surface and Thin Film Microstructure , 1992 , 131
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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