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Quantitative High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of III-V Semiconductor Interfaces by Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Exit-Plane Wave Function Images

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Krishnamurthy Mahalingam ,
Kurt G. Eyink ,
Gail J. Brown  and
Donald L. Dorsey
Krishnamurthy Mahalingam
Affiliation:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/MLPS, 3005 P St.,Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707, U.S.A.
Kurt G. Eyink
Affiliation:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/MLPS, 3005 P St.,Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707, U.S.A.
Gail J. Brown
Affiliation:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/MLPS, 3005 P St.,Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707, U.S.A.
Donald L. Dorsey
Affiliation:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/MLPS, 3005 P St.,Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The application of exit-plane wave function (EPWF) images for an atomic-scale compositional mapping of interfaces in the GaAs-AlAs system is investigated. Image simulations based on the multislice algorithm were performed to obtain EPWF images over a wide range of compositions and specimen thicknesses. The EPWF-amplitude images were further analyzed by the method of factorial analysis of correspondence. A simultaneous analysis of the effects both thickness and composition on image contrast yielded two eigenvectors representing the individual contributions from the two effects. This separation was however not complete, leaving a residual contribution from thickness on the composition-sensitive eigenvector and vice versa. Extraction of the chemical content from the composition-sensitive eigenvector is still possible by a parameterization of the residual thickness contribution. A simpler procedure for quantifying the composition across an interface is proposed based on the analysis of images of AlxGa(1-x)As with different Al/Ga composition but same specimen thickness.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 727: Symposium R – Nanostructured Interfaces , 2002 , R9.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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