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Crystal Quality of III-V Substrate Wafers and Epitaxial Layers Studied by X-Ray Topography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

I. C. Bassignana  and
D. A. Macquistan
I. C. Bassignana
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Laboratory, Bell-Northern Research Ltd.P. O.. Box 3511 Stn.“C”, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIY 4H7
D. A. Macquistan
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Laboratory, Bell-Northern Research Ltd.P. O.. Box 3511 Stn.“C”, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIY 4H7
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Abstract

The crystal quality of III-V substrates was studied by x-ray asymmetric crystal topography (ACT). An extensive study of device-quality GaAs (LEC SI, LEC n-type, VGF and VB) and InP (LEC n-type (S) and SI (Fe) ) wafers reveals that they can contain various defects: low angle grain boundaries, dislocation cell structure, slip, swirl and included mosaic structure.

The high angular resolution of ACT was used to non-destructively study both the epitaxial layer and the substrate. Topographs of the substrate and the epitaxial layers of AlGaAs/GaAs layers grown by MBE and MOCVD are compared. The quality of the substrate has direct implications for the quality of the epitaxial growth. For coherent layers, both the large scale and small scale defects observed in the substrates were exactly reproduced in the epitaxial layers grown by both techniques.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 312: Symposium P – Common Themes and Mechanisms of Epitaxial Growth , 1993 , 185
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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