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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
High crystallized thin InSb epitaxial growth directly on Si substrate was investigated by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). Experimental results indicated that suppressing the desorption of hydrogen atoms which terminated the dangling bonds of Si wafer surface and incorporation of As around the interface between film and Si substrate were the most important to obtained high crystallized InSb film. It could be achieved by the irradiation of As4 cluster beam onto the Si wafer just before film growth. Obtained thin InSb film showed mirror like surface, and its thickness was 0.7 μm. Its electron mobility was 47,600 cm2/V-s, and FWHM of HR-XRD rocking curve was about 300 arcsec. This InSb film on Si wafer was applied to Hall element, and it passed ordinary reliability tests.