We investigated the effect of annealing on the crystalline quality of Ge epilayers grown on low porosity porous silicon (pSi) buffer layer and on bulk Si by LEPECVD. High- resolution XRD analysis indicates that during annealing, Ge grown on pSi undergoes a stronger reorganization compared to Ge grown on Si in terms of strain distribution and mosaic broadening. Strong morphological reorganization of the pSi buffer during annealing leads to a stronger reduction in Ge mosaicity as compared to annealed Ge on bulk Si. This improvement is attributed to bending of threading dislocations in a plane parallel to the growth interface, which is attributed to a strain field introduced by pSi within Ge during their simultaneous reorganization at high-temperature. After cyclic annealing at 750 8C, plan view transmission electron micro- scopy analysis revealed a threading dislocation density for Ge on pSi which is about one order of magnitude smaller than for annealed Ge on bulk Si. Ge on pSi virtual substrates thus represent a promising platform for the growth of III–V and GeSn semiconductors on Si with a low cost and high- throughput technique.
Titolo: | Enhanced reduction in threading dislocation density in Ge grown on porous silicon during annealing due to porous buffer reconstruction |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2016 |
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Abstract: | We investigated the effect of annealing on the crystalline quality of Ge epilayers grown on low porosity porous silicon (pSi) buffer layer and on bulk Si by LEPECVD. High- resolution XRD analysis indicates that during annealing, Ge grown on pSi undergoes a stronger reorganization compared to Ge grown on Si in terms of strain distribution and mosaic broadening. Strong morphological reorganization of the pSi buffer during annealing leads to a stronger reduction in Ge mosaicity as compared to annealed Ge on bulk Si. This improvement is attributed to bending of threading dislocations in a plane parallel to the growth interface, which is attributed to a strain field introduced by pSi within Ge during their simultaneous reorganization at high-temperature. After cyclic annealing at 750 8C, plan view transmission electron micro- scopy analysis revealed a threading dislocation density for Ge on pSi which is about one order of magnitude smaller than for annealed Ge on bulk Si. Ge on pSi virtual substrates thus represent a promising platform for the growth of III–V and GeSn semiconductors on Si with a low cost and high- throughput technique. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11379/493652 |
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