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Growth and Characterization of Pseudomorphic Gel-yCy and Si1-yCy Alloy Layers on Si Substrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

K. Brunner ,
K. Eberl  and
W. Winter
K. Brunner
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstralße 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
K. Eberl
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstralße 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
W. Winter
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstralße 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Abstract

Pseudomorphic Gel-yCy and Sil-yCy alloy layers have been synthesized by solidsource molecular beam epitaxy on Si (001) substrates. High quality short-period Gel-y Cy/Si superlattice structures with a carbon content up to about 5 % are grown at low substrate temperature. The partial compensation of strain within Ge964C036 layers of 7 Å thickness improves the thermal stability against lattice relaxation, compared to pure Ge layers. Band-edge related photoluminescence is observed from pseudomorphic Sil-yCy/Si multiple quantum well structures at low temperature. The two predominant luminescence lines are attributed to no-phonon transitions and Si-Si TO phonon replicas of bound excitons confined within the Sil-yCy alloy quantum well layers. The tensile strain within the Sil-yCy layers shifts the twofold degenerate Δ(2) conduction band valley down in energy and is mainly responsible for the linear band gap reduction which is observed for increasing C content.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 405: Symposium K – Surface/Interface and Stress Effects in Electronic Materials Nanostructures , 1995 , 87
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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