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Real-Time Composition And Thickness Control Techniques In A Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. S. Gaffneyt
Affiliation:
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering [email protected]
C. M. Reavesl
Affiliation:
Materials University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
A. L Holmes Jr.
Affiliation:
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering
R. S. Smith
Affiliation:
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering
S. P. DenBaars
Affiliation:
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering Materials University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) is a process used to manufacture electronic and optoelectronic devices that has traditionally lacked real-time growth monitoring and control. We have developed control strategies that incorporate monitors as real-time control sensors to improve MOCVD growth. An analog control system with an ultrasonic concentration monitor was used to reject bubbler concentration disturbances which exist under normal operation, during the growth of a four-period GaInAs/InP superlattice. Using X-ray diffraction, it was determined that the normally occurring concentration variations led to a wider GaInAs peak in the uncompensated growths as compared to the compensated growths, indicating that closed loop control improved GaInAs composition regulation. In further analysis of the X-ray diffraction curves, superlattice peaks were used as a measure of high crystalline quality. The compensated curve clearly displayed eight orders of satellite peaks, whereas the uncompensated curve shows little evidence of satellite peaks.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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