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Cross-Sectional TEM Study Of Phase Separation In Reaction Of Ni-Ta Films With GaAs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

A. Lahav
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
M. Eizenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Y. Komem
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
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Abstract

The reaction between Ni60Ta40 amorphous alloy and (001) GaAs was studied by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy, Auger spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction. At 400°C formation of Ni GaAs at the interface with GaAs was observed. After heat treatment at 600°C in vacuum a layered structure of TaAs/NiGa/GaAs has been formed. The NiGa layer has epitaxial relations to the GaAs substrate. The vertical phase separation can be explained by opposite diffusion directions of nickel and arsenic atoms.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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