• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Investigation of digital alloyed AlInSb metamorphic buffers
  • Beteiligte: Dahiya, Vinita; Deitz, Julia I.; Hollingshead, David A.; Carlin, John A.; Grassman, Tyler J.; Krishna, Sanjay
  • Erschienen: American Vacuum Society, 2018
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1116/1.5018260
  • ISSN: 2166-2746; 2166-2754
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Al1-xInxSb metamorphic step-graded buffers with Al0.6In0.4Sb terminal layers, designed to serve as a virtual substrate to support integrated InAs0.5Sb0.5 long-wave infrared absorber layers, were grown on GaSb wafers via molecular beam epitaxy. Two different structural profiles were used to define the effective composition of each buffer step: one based on digital alloys (1 nm period, ∼1.6 unit cells) and the other based on short period superlattices (10 nm period, ∼16 unit cells). Characterization via optical Nomarski microscopy, x-ray diffraction reciprocal space mapping, and transmission electron microscopy indicates that the digital alloy based structure behaves similar to that expected for a conventional bulk ternary alloy based structure, while the short period superlattice structure exhibits significantly hindered relaxation within the buffer layers.</jats:p>