Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T01:50:02.237Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Tem Study of Strain Compensated InP/GaAs/GaP/GaAs Superlattice Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

I. Rusakova ,
A. H. Bensaoula  and
A. Bensaoula
I. Rusakova
Affiliation:
Texas Center for Superconductivity
A. H. Bensaoula
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, MN 55455-0132
A. Bensaoula
Affiliation:
Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932
Get access

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the effects that alternating stress has on the structural quality of chemical beam epitaxy grown InP/GaAs/GaP/GaAS superlattices. Grown on GaAs (100), InP has a lattice mismatch of +3.9% whereas that of GaP grown under the same conditions is -3.7%. We have shown in previous work [1] that it is possible to use the principle of strain balancing to achieve highly coherent, electronically active, structures. We use TEM to first evaluate the critical thickness of GaP/GaAs and InP/GaAs heterolayers, then proceed with an extensive structural study of strain compensated structures. Misoriented substrates were also chosen to intentionally induce dislocations, allowing us to observe their structure without changing the overall strain conditions.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 441: Thin Films – Structure and Morphology , 1996 , 445
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Bensaoula, A. H., Freundlich, A., Bensaoula, A., Rossignol, V. and Ponchet, A.. I. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 12 (2) pp. 1110–1112 (1994).Google Scholar
2. Esaki, L. and Tsu, R., IBM J. Res. Dev. 14, 61(1970).Google Scholar
3. Pearsall, T. P. in: Strained-layer superlattices: Physics (Academic Press, New York, 1990).Google Scholar
4. Matthews, J. W.. Epitaxial Growth, Part B (Academic Press, New York, 1990)Google Scholar
5. Fox, B. A. and Jesser, W. A, J. Appl. Phys. Vol.68 (69), pp. 2739–46 (1990)Google Scholar
6. Bensaoula, A. H., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Houston, Houston, TX (1996).Google Scholar
7. Bensaoula, A. H. and Freundlich, A., J. Crystal Growth Vol.164, pp.271–75 (1996).Google Scholar